I have one lingering concern about this document. Karklins' comments are about "geographic names," which would seem to me to include city names. Our comments are entitled "geographical names" but address country names only. I am very comfortable with the ccnso comments on country names. I am concerned that our comments could be interpreted to apply to city and regional names as well, however. In the past, the GAC took the position that city names should have the support of the relevant city, which seems quite sensible. But to my knowledge we haven't taken the view that city/regional names should be exempt from ICANN rules. To avoid any confusion, can we call this paper: Geographical Names - Input from ccNSO Council on Country/Territory Names. And, can we add a sentence somewhere that says: "These comments are limited to the use of country/territory names in top level domains, but are not intended to address the use of city or regional names." B J. Beckwith Burr | WilmerHale 1875 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006 USA +1 202 663 6695 (t) +1 202 663 6363 (f) becky.burr@wilmerhale.com Please consider the environment before printing this email. ________________________________ This email message and any attachments are being sent by Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, are confidential, and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately-by replying to this message or by sending an email to postmaster@wilmerhale.com <mailto:postmaster@wilmerhale.com> -and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you. For more information about WilmerHale, please visit us at http://www.wilmerhale.com <http://www.wilmerhale.com/> . ________________________________ From: owner-ccnso-council@icann.org [mailto:owner-ccnso-council@icann.org] On Behalf Of Chris Disspain Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:54 PM To: ccNSO Council Subject: [ccnso-council] Input on geographic names in new gTLDs All, As discussed in Sydney, attached is the proposed input to ICANN on this topic. It is based on the note drafted by Hilde and Annebeth. Please provide any input or comment as soon as possible. Cheers, Chris Disspain CEO - auDA au Domain Administration Ltd ceo@auda.org.au <mailto:ceo@auda.org.au> www.auda.org.au <http://www.auda.org.au/> Important Notice - This email may contain information which is confidential and/or subject to legal privilege, and is intended for the use of the named addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose or copy any part of this email. If you have received this email by mistake, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately. Please consider the environment before printing this email. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4206 (20090701) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com