This was a topic discussed by the New TLD Applicant Group and Registry Stakeholder Group who all agree that we need this list from ICANN. ICANN - Please advise as to when you all can provide the authoritative list that you will hold registries accountable to? Any discretion left to the operators will be a disaster from a compliance perspective and places an unfair and unrealistic burden on the registries. Jeffrey J. Neuman Neustar, Inc. / Vice President, Business Affairs -----Original Message----- From: gtld-tech-bounces@icann.org [mailto:gtld-tech-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Gould, James Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 8:28 AM To: Gavin Brown; Luis Muñoz Cc: gTLD-tech@icann.org Subject: Re: [gtld-tech] Update to reserved names list for new gTLDs I second Gavin's request. Can ICANN please provide an authoritative list of the reserved names in a single consistent readable form based on what is defined in Specification 5 of the Registry Agreement <http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/agreement-approved-02jul13-en. pdf>? -- JG James Gould Principal Software Engineer jgould@verisign.com 703-948-3271 (Office) 12061 Bluemont Way Reston, VA 20190 VerisignInc.com On 9/19/13 8:15 AM, "Gavin Brown" <gavin.brown@centralnic.com> wrote:
On 19/09/2013 12:48, Luis Muñoz wrote:
On Sep 19, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Gavin Brown wrote:
While it's very easy to extract useful data from ISO-3166, the two PDF documents I found are a different matter.
Copying and pasting text (especially non-ASCII text) out of a PDF is potentially risky: when I tried using Adobe Reader on Mac OS X I had very little luck, getting either nothing at all or a series of junk characters.
You'll find that some of these documents simply won't allow you to cut & paste what you want, because parts of the text have been converted to bitmaps inside the document.
So the text will be have to be manually transcribed - by someone competent in each of the six official UN languages (or six people competent in one of the languages).
Multiply that effort by N registry operators/backend operators, and that's an awful lot of unreliable, lossy, duplicated work.
G.
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