[ncdnhc-discuss] Fw: [council] GAC and country name reservations

[Vany Martinez]

Hi Dany, YJ and all:

--- Dany Vandromme <vandrome at renater.fr> wrote:
> YJ
> Could you develop your concerns about the reasons
> for WIPO, not to be a
> world based organisation. Are you afraid that WIPO
> is working only for a
> latin-type framework, without accounting for the
> various alphabet you
> are mentionning?

ICANN Board has made a resolution in Montevideo
regarding country and geographical names in .info,
which followed the recommendation of GAC regarding
such issue.

However, such recommendation, only takes in count the 
ISO-3166 list, which, sadly is based latin characters
only.

I would suggest to develop a resolution to deliver to
the ICANN Board and GAC (through NC or directly) where
it takes in count also all translations in all
existent languages and characters based in any
existent standards of non-latin characters and or
authoritative dictionaries containing such
translations (for example, for Spanish translations,
it shouls be based in the Royal Academic Spanish
Language dictionary which is the authority for Spanish
language).

Best Regards
Vany




> -
> > There should be more efforts to be made to bridge
> existing gaps
> > between the ASCII domain name stakeholders and
> Non-latin domain
> > name stakeholders.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > YJ
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Philip Sheppard
> > To: NC (list)
> > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 11:56 PM
> > Subject: [council] GAC and country name
> reservations
> > 
> > In a communiqué made by the Government Advisory
> Council at its Montevideo
> > meeting
>
http://www.icann.org/committees/gac/communique-09sep01.htm
> "the GAC
> > recommends that the names of countries and
> distinct economies, particularly
> > those contained in the ISO 3166-1 standard, as
> applied by ICANN in
> > identifying ccTLDs, should be reserved by the
> .info Registry, (or if
> > registered in the Sunrise Period challenged by the
> Registry and, if
> > successful, then reserved) in Latin characters in
> their official language(s)
> > and in English and assigned to the corresponding
> governments and public
> > authorities, at their request, for use. These
> names in other IDN character
> > sets should be reserved in the same way as soon as
> they become available"
> > In the same communiqué the GAC further "draws the
> attention of ICANN and the
> > Registries to the fact that a large number of
> other names, including
> > administrative sub-divisions of countries and
> distinct economies as
> > recognised in international fora, may give rise to
> contested registrations.
> > Accordingly the GAC recommends that Registrars and
> eventual Registrants
> > should be made aware of this".
> > ---------------------------------------
> > I believe that the NC should issue a statement
> about this and ask you to
> > consult in your constituencies rapidly. I
> currently propose that we could
> > consider:
> > - urging caution on the GAC in taking this step,
> > - point out that dot info is but the start of a
> TLD expansion and something
> > much more interesting for countries could be
> possible
> > - propose that WIPO is the best place for
> discussion on geographical names.
> > 
> > Comments please.
> > Philip
> > NC Chair
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Discuss at icann-ncc.org
> > http://www.icann-ncc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> 
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Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales
Information Technology Specialist
Sustainable Development Networking Programme/Panama
http://www.sdnp.org.pa e-mail: vany at sdnp.org.pa

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