Dear Work Track 5 members,
Thanks to Jaap and Christopher for continuing this conversation and for sharing the below links. This is a brief attempt to summarize some of the points Jaap has previously raised about “exceptionally reserved” codes and consider next steps.
Jaap, please correct, as necessary, but I believe these are the items you have raised:
Regarding the fourth bullet above, staff has connected with GDD colleagues to get additional clarification about the relevant provision in the 2012 Applicant Guidebook:
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:
iv. it is the short- or long-form name association with a code that has been designated as “exceptionally reserved” by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.
GDD has confirmed that all such short- and long- form names were reserved, regardless of whether they referred to a country or territory.
Jaap, I believe your briefly mentioned previously that it might be appropriate to remove or modify this provision of the AGB.
If you would like to include a proposal in the Initial Report, can you kindly provide some language, along with (if possible) a description of the problem that this proposal would solve?
All other Work Track members are welcome to submit proposals on this issue, as well.
Kind regards,
Emily
From: Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@NLnetLabs.nl>
Date: Friday, 9 November 2018 at 12:50
To: "lists@christopherwilkinson.eu Wilkinson" <lists@christopherwilkinson.eu>
Cc: Emily Barabas <emily.barabas@icann.org>, <gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5@icann.org>
Subject: [Ext] Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5] Notes and Action Items - Work Track 5 - 7 November 2018
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