[wg-c] forwarded for Manon Ress

[Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>]

>Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 14:33:02 -0400
>From: Manon Anne Ress <mress@essential.org>
>To: Mike Palage <mpalage@infonetworks.com>,
>        Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@mail.msen.com>
>CC: "nc-tlds@venice.essential.org" <nc-tlds@venice.essential.org>
>Subject: Comments on new TLDs and .humanrights
>
>Dear Mr. Palage and Professor Weinberg,
>
>Would you please distribute this letter on the lists for Working
>Groups
>B and C?   Thank you.
>
> Manon Ress
>
><--letter to ICANN working groups on new TLDs-->
>
>
>Dear members of ICANN's working groups B and C,
>
>We are writing to address issues concerning (1) the creation of
>restricted use TLDs and (2) the use of company, product, government or
>organization names in connection with TLDs.
>
>First, the procedures adopted by ICANN for new TLDS should permit the
>creation of both unrestricted and restricted TLDs, to address
>different needs.  A TLD for human rights organizations, such as
>.humanrights, should be controlled by the human rights community, and
>not be created  as an unrestricted TLD.
>
>Second, the ICANN rules regarding the use of names of companies,
>products, governments or non-government organizations should not
>prevent the registration of domains such as nike.humanrights, by human
>rights organizations, for use in organizing communities or providing
>information about human rights records.
>
>We are working on the creation of a coalition to apply to ICANN to be
>the registry for .humanrights.  The coalition will include
>representatives from national and international human rights
>organizations, and will provide a gateway or portal to information
>about human rights for specific companies, products, governments or
>non-government organizations.  Persons who are
>interested in this initiative may contact Manon Ress at
>1.202.234.0040, mress@essential.org.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Manon Ress
>Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute
>
>