Dear all, I am sorry that it was impossible for me to attend the last teleconference the24th August. I was in China on holiday, on a hotel with really bad Internet connection, and it was 4 a.m. Chinese time. I have read the transcripts from the call and have a few comments: First and most important, I agree with you in the way you decided to move forward from here. It would be an advantage to have the view of the community on the treatment on 2-letter codes before we move on to 3-letter codes. If we manage to get this settled in Dublin, that would be excellent. Even if we haven´t really started to discuss 3-letter codes yet, I just wanted to make a comment on an input to the applicant guidebook mentioned by Jeff. There are rules in the guidebook that has been followed in the first round. In Module 2, 2.2.1.4.1.Treatment of Country or Territory Names, litre i) it is made clear that: Applications for strings that are country or territory names will not be approved, as they are not available under the New gTLD Program in this application round. A string shall be considered to be a country or territory name if: 1. it is an alpha-3 code listed in the ISO 3166-1 standard. This does not mean that this will be the result in the future, but so far this has been followed. 3-letter strings, like xyz and cat, have been assigned. But they were not on the ISO 3166-1 alpha 3-code list. During the application round there were applications for 3-letter strings that were denied, because they were on this list, such as .and. We also know that among the original gTLDs the 3-letter code for COMORES was taken for .com. But this is the only one, as far as I know, and I do not think anyone would be confused here and think that .com is representing Comores. .com is long time ago incorporated as a representation for commercial. So you could argue that that ship has sailed already. On the other hand, .com has never pretended representing Comores. Kind regards, Annebeth, co-chair representing ccNSO Annebeth B. Lange Head of Legal and Policy UNINETT Norid AS C. J. Hambros plass NO-0164 OSLO annebeth.lange@uninett.no<mailto:annebeth.lange@uninett.no> Mobile: +47 959 11 559 From: Lars Hoffmann <lars.hoffmann@icann.org<mailto:lars.hoffmann@icann.org>> Date: Monday 24 August 2015 13:51 To: "ctn-crosscom@icann.org<mailto:ctn-crosscom@icann.org>" <ctn-crosscom@icann.org<mailto:ctn-crosscom@icann.org>> Subject: [Ctn-crosscom] Agenda and Document Dear all, Please find attached a summary document on the responses on 3-letter codes that were submitted so far. Please note, the red languages in the options column just indicates corrections - no substantive changes were made. Below you find the proposed agenda for today's call: Cross Community Working Group on the Use of Country and Territory Names as gTLDs Monday 24 August 2015 at 20:00 UTC for 1 hour (local times: http://tinyurl.com/ovywzbc) 1. Welcome 2. Confirm status of 2-letter codes 3. Discuss methodology for 3-letter codes * Transferable principles from 2-letter codes * Additional considerations * Timeframe and community input * AOB 4. First look at submitted comments on 3-letter codes 5. Next meeting and AOB Best wishes, Lars