Dear Donna,

Thank you for your note. There is currently a Cross Community Working Group on the Use of Country and Territory Names as Top-Level Domains (see here) working on at least part of this issue. You might recall that Heather provided an update to the GNSO Council as the Group’s co-Chair during the last Council call (transcript here). To assure you, and others, the Group is very much aware of the GAC’s work and is trying to coordinate their respective  efforts to avoid a situation where the GAC’s potential future advise on geographic names conflicts with anything the CWG is producing. Please note that the CWG is meeting bi-weekly and the number of GNSO members is not as prominent as it could be  - as also pointed out by Heather. 

In addition, Heather will send out a call to the GNSO Council to provide informal feedback on the CWG’s work, including the potential overlap with the GAC’s work later today; any feedback you – and others – can provide will be most welcome in the CWG’s discussions. 

Many thanks and best wishes,
Lars




From: Donna Austin <Donna.Austin@ariservices.com>
Date: Wednesday, 3 June 2015 01:49
To: Steve Chan <steve.chan@icann.org>, "<gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org>" <gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org>
Subject: Re: [Gnso-newgtld-dg] Additional item to charter: application by previous applicant

Steve, All

 

I have another question—sorry

 

As we all know the GAC has a working group on Geographic Names, which seems to be intent on expanding the definition to include potentially thousands of strings. The AGB had a moratorium on the ability to apply for country/territory names at the top level in the first round.

 

Is it the intention of the DG that this be picked up as part of the next round PDP, or perhaps dealt with as a distinct and separate issue elsewhere.

 

Apologies if this has been covered previously and I missed it.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Donna

 

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From: gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Steve Chan
Sent: Monday, 1 June 2015 3:56 PM
To: gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org
Subject: Re: [Gnso-newgtld-dg] Additional item to charter: application by previous applicant

 

All,

 

I have made the following updates to the draft charter:

  • Incorporated the suggestion from Donna Austin from 27 May
  • Made the change suggested by Philip Sheppard and the BRG, although I made it far more general because as Philip noted, the set of circumstances described would not be limited to just .brands.
  • Regarding the comments from Thomas Lowenhaupt, I did not make a change in the charter, but instead made a change in the matrix, where I included a link to Thomas’ Wiki post about Informed Consent, so that it can be considered in full by a possible WG.

The latest versions are attached and also available on the Wiki: https://community.icann.org/display/DGNGSR/DRAFT+Deliverables. If there are any disagreements with how the items have been captured, do of course let me know and I’ll be happy to update.

 

When we reach the finish line, I’ll once again integrate the DG's three documents into a single, clean document.

 

Best,

Steve

 

 

From: "philip@brandregistrygroup.org" <philip@brandregistrygroup.org>
Date: Monday, June 1, 2015 at 3:46 AM
To: "gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org" <gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org>
Subject: [Gnso-newgtld-dg] Additional item to charter: application by previous applicant

 

Steve, Jeff, Bret,

 

a BRG member has made this suggestion which I think could be wider than just .brands. Could you agree to add it to the Charter maybe in Section II, Group 1, around the bullet "Different TLD Types? Feel free to turn the text into the style of the Charter.

 

 

Philip Sheppard

Director General

Brand Registry Group

 

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Application by a previous applicant

In case a (.brand) RO (from the first round) applies for another (.brand) gTLD in the subsequent application window, certain requirements of the application could be shortened, reduced of even omitted (e.g., financial, technical, administrative, etc.) in case such RO is duly fulfilling its current RA and running its (.brand) gTLD. It seems some time could be saved during the application process if ICANN validates most of the the RO information.