Dear all,

Please find included the material with respect to Item 7 on the agenda.

Kind regards,

Bart

Agenda ccNSO Council Meeting

24 August 2017

ACTION ITEM 131-02:

The Secretariat is asked to organize drafting of letter. (CCWG Use of Country and Territory names).

See agenda item 7. 

7) Follow-up discussion recommendation Study Group CTN Letter to the Board to request continued exclusion of country and territory names in subsequent new gTLDs rounds.

For discussion and decision

In September 2014 the Study Group recommended Council: In light of the need for further work on the treatment of country and territory names, the complexity of the issue at hand and the aforementioned inconsistencies between various ICANN policies, it is also recommended that the ccNSO Council request that the ICANN Board extend the current rule in the new gTLD Applicant Guidebook regarding the exclusion of all country and territory names in all languages, for consecutive rounds of new gTLD applications.

Council adopted this recommendation in 2014. Given the establishment of the CCWG UCTN, Council did not pursue this recommendation, awaiting the outcome of the deliberations and recommendations of the CCWG.

At the ccNSO members meeting in Johannesburg the recommendations of the CCWG Use of Country and Territory names to continue work on use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs were discussed and supported. This also included the recommendation of the Study Group. Council deferred it decision to send the letter to 24 August meeting, and has asked for a draft of such a letter.

Cover note and draft letter included

Decision asked is whether to send a letter and to whom: Board, GNSO Council or others.