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GAC Advice

The GAC provides advice to the ICANN Board on policy matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN’s policies and various laws, international agreements and public policy objectives. GAC Advice is communicated to the ICANN Board through either a Communique or a formal piece of Correspondence.

2014-03-27-IGO

GAC Advice

Reference No. :

2014-03-27-IGO

First Delivered 27 Mar 2014 via :

ICANN49 Singapore Communique

Consenus:

Consensus met

2014-03-27-IGO

8. Protection of Inter-Governmental Organisation (IGO) Names and Acronyms

The GAC recalls its previous public policy advice from the Toronto, Beijing, Durban and Buenos Aires Communiqués regarding protection for IGO names and acronyms at the top and second levels and awaits the Board’s response regarding implementation of the GAC advice.

Responsible Party

Board

Current Status/Communications Log

Board Scorecard - Updated 14 May 2014

Scorecard Response:

On 7 February 2014, the Board directed the NGPC to: (1) consider the policy recommendations from the GNSO as the NGPC continues to actively develop an approach to respond to the GAC advice on protections for IGOs, and (2) develop a comprehensive proposal to address the GAC advice and the GNSO policy recommendations for consideration by the Board at a
subsequent meeting.
On 13 March 2014, the NGPC forwarded to the GAC for information a draft proposal for implementing the GAC advice on IGO acronym protections at the second level.
On 30 April 2014, the Board took action to adopt the GNSO policy recommendations that are not inconsistent with GAC Advice received by the Board on the topic of IGO protections. With respect to the GNSO
policy recommendations that differ from the GAC Advice (including this item of GAC Advice) the Board requested additional time to consider them, and will facilitate discussions among the relevant parties to
reconcile any remaining differences between the policy recommendations and the GAC advice on the topic.

Board Scorecard - 8 September 2014

Board Action (Accept/Disagree)

With respect to the GNSO policy recommendations that differ from the GAC Advice (including this item of GAC Advice) the Board requested additional time to consider them, and will facilitate discussions among the relevant parties to reconcile any remaining differences between the policy recommendations and the GAC advice on the topic.