Colleagues, I wonder if there is a case to be made for new sTLDs for international intergovernmental organizations (say .igo) and countries (say .country)? While these would not deal directly with offending sites in the rest of the gTLD namespace, it would at least provide a single official address for IGOs and countries. The concept could, of course, be extended to other sensitive types of name. Am I right off track or does this have some merit? Alick -----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Paul Verhoef Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:41 p.m. To: council@gnso.icann.org Cc: 'John Jeffrey' Subject: [council] WIPO-II All, Please find enclosed the letter and its annex from WIPO that we received last week. I understand there were some technical issues with getting it on the web-site but as soon as these are arranged it will go up, hopefully already today. I would like to offer my excuses for that. regards Paul <<...>> <<...>> ____________________________________ Paul Verhoef Vice President Policy Development Support ICANN 6 Rond Point Schuman, Bt.5 B-1040 Brussels, Belgium Tel.: +32.2.234 7872 Fax: +32.2.234 7848 <http://www.icann.org> www.icann.org