Dear All,

CWG-UCTN: Progress Report and Draft Interim Report on use of country and territory names as TLDs now available.

In preparation of the Hyderabad meeting, the Cross-Community Working Group on the Use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs (CWG-UCTN: https://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/ccwg-unct.htm ) has prepared two reports: a Progress report and its draft Interim report. Based on the discussions to date, community input and the discussions in Helsinki (ICANN55), the Working Group concluded that for various reasons a harmonised framework for the use of country, territory and other geographic names is not feasible. The CWG will discuss further steps at its f-2-f meeting in Hyderabad.

The aforementioned announcement has just been posted on the ccNSO website:

https://ccnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-26oct16-en.htm

Best regards,