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

[Vany Martinez]

Dear YJ:

Thanks to bring this issue to our constituency.

I think that inputs developed in this subject has to
be integral regardless latin or non-latin characters,
because anyway, the name of a country or the name of a
geographical area exists in latin and non-latin
characters.

Even, the name of a country that is not originally in
non-latin characters has already its translation in
the dictionaries of such non-latin character
languages.

I personally not agree with GAC intentions.  This is
the same as if government have a law that prohibits to
use geographical names when they register a brand or
the name of a bussiness, neither I am agree that GAC
ask to ICANN to make this a policy when this is a
matter relative to local laws and/or WIPO.

However, what ICANN is to communicate to WIPO ICANN
opinion about any attempt of WIPO to develop a policy
as the GAC wishes.

Best Regards
Vany







--- YJ Park <yjpark at myepark.com> wrote:
> Dear members,
> 
> Philip, NC chair, asked views from each constituency
> regarding
> country name reservations. Please, unfold your
> views.
> 
> Taking this opportunity, I want to share my concern
> in "country
> names in other IDN character sets" reservation
> practice without
> proper consultation process.
> 
> DNSO/ICANN has been providing its views regarding
> English and
> Latin based domain names which this community has
> believed to
> have expertise on this.
> 
> However, as many of us have admitted DNSO/ICANN at
> this current
> stage cannot be recognized to provide such an
> expertise yet. In light
> of this, WIPO cannot be recognized as such to
> provide expertise in
> Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Tamil, Hindi,
> Urdu, Cyrillic, etc
> either.
> 
> 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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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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