Hello Olivier. There are those who want the 3 letter TLDs to be completely unreserved. I think this is a middle group, but many won't see it that way.

Marita


On 8/12/2018 9:26 AM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond wrote:
Dear Maureen,

thanks for asking this question.
For various reasons, I have been staying away from WT5 work, but the proposal from Carlos makes sense so I would support it.

The only question I might have is "what is the purpose of the proposal?" because I can certainly see some communities arguing against reserving ISO 3166-1 Alpha 3 Letter Codes. Would this be the current list, as of 18 August 2018? Or would this block off all 3 letter TLDs thus reserving 3 letter TLDs for any potential future addition to the ISO 3166-1 Alpha 3 Letter Codes? Is the GNSO ready to hand off potentially valuable 3 letter TLDs to the CC community?

So to me, the purpose of the proposal appears to be to record an objection against a permanent restriction of the delegation of the ISO 3-Letter list.

Would that put the issue to bed? Probably not.
Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 11/08/2018 20:43, Maureen Hilyard wrote:
Hi everyone

If you have been following the discussions in WT5 you will see that there has been a lot of controversy over the GNSO consensus process on Country and Territory Names and how best to come to a decision on each of the key issues that are being discussed. 

With regards to an agreement over 3-letter country codes, Carlos Raul Gutierrez has proposed the following suggestion to help this process move forward, I believe we should consider his proposal as a reasonable compromise considering all the discussion that has taken place and send our support (or otherwise) to our ALAC co-Chair. The ALAC views could be coordinated by the CPWG leads but will be required by Tuesday??.

This is urgent, as it appears that consensus calls will be received by the co-Chairs during the week  and as they will have to prepare for the next WT5 meeting on the 22nd, it would be good to include an ALAC opinion as well. 

“Dear Annebeth,

As you have heard me (too) many times before, I admire the track record of preceding, clearly focused public interest 3 letter geo-TLDs, like the ones from Catalonia in Spain, Brittany's in France, and Serbia's 3 letter TLDs

Now that I re-stated my rationale for such a clear-cut public interest case in an email to Rosalia (for geo use ONLY, accessible -i.e. cheap- and non-profit), I hereby submit to the WT my final revised language suggestion, which is ONLY applicable for 3-Letter codes. It would substitute the following final paragraph in the relevant section which deals with 3-Letter codes: “The SubPro may want to consider recommending whether any future application/revision/delegation process to be established (either generic or restricted to the Geographic categories only), should determine if, when, and how specific interested parties, such as relevant public international, national or sub-national public authorities, may apply for country and territory names"

My suggestion for a FORWARD looking option is:

“ICANN may only consider applications of ISO 3166-1 Alpha 3 Letter Codes submitted by relevant governmental authorities, ccTLD managers and public interest/public benefit entities.”

This paragraph is, in my view, a sensible part of a forward-looking recommendation that could go ahead with broader WT consensus. And if it does not, please make sure it is recorded as an objection against a permanent restriction of the delegation of the ISO 3-Letter list.

Thanks to all,

Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez" 



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