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[ga] FYI: Proposed Action Plan on .info Country Names
http://www.icann.org/montevideo/action-plan-country-names-09oct01.htm
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Proposed Action Plan
The Board's resolution 01.93 directed the President to propose an
action plan for rapid analysis of the technical and other issues
related to the concerns raised by the GAC. The following plan is
proposed pursuant to that resolution:
1. To allow discussion of the issues raised by the GAC request
concerning .info names, maintain reservation of the 327 .info names.
The interim reservation of country and distinct economy names in
.info enables the ICANN community to evaluate the technical and
other issues related to the concerns raised by the GAC, and whether
the temporarily reserved names in .info should be made available to
governments and distinct economies at their request, as requested
by the GAC and agreed to by Afilias. The reservation should be
maintained until the March 2002 ICANN meeting in Accra.
2. Convene a discussion group to explore appropriate ways of
addressing the short-term issue of the disposition of the 327
.info names.
The GAC communiqué and ICANN Board resolutions in Montevideo show a
divergence of opinions regarding the GAC's recommendations concerning
country names within .info. To help resolve this divergence, a
discussion group should be convened consisting of members of the
ICANN Board and the GAC. In addition, representatives of Afilias and
WIPO should be invited to join the group. The discussion group should
invite input to the specific issue of assignment of these 327 names
from the DNSO and other interested parties within the Internet
community.
The discussion group should address at least the following issues as
part of its analysis. It should be emphasized that there is now a
precise proposed list available that has been derived from ISO-3166
and that this list has been endorsed by GAC, that is, the technical
problems of which country lists to select has been superseded by the
pragmatic acceptance of a precise list of names.
a) Should ICANN prohibit the agreed arrangements for the assignment
of up to the 327 of the temporarily "frozen" .info names to
governments for use to support official informational websites? Are
there considerations that require prohibiting the agreed arrangements?
b) Would assignment of these .info country names impede future
discussions regarding the general policy for country or distinct
economy names in other TLDs?
c) Would allowing the agreed arrangement for the .info country names
create a precedent that could lead to similar requirements for other
TLDs? Is the GAC willing to commit that reservations of country
distinct economy names will not be sought in other TLDs at least
until the outcome of the WIPO-2 discussions?
The discussion group's conclusions should be provided to the ICANN
Board before the Accra meeting in March 2002.
3. Encourage the Domain Name Supporting Organization to evaluate
possible approaches for longer-term arrangements concerning use of
geographic names within the DNS, including having the matter
addressed in other fora such as the WIPO-2 process.
In addition to addressing the short-term issue of .info names as
described above, attention should be given to the longer-term
issue of how country names should be treated in other TLDs. This
longer-term issue was raised in the November 2000 GAC communiqué
and is also the subject of discussion within the WIPO-2 process
and other intergovernmental fora.
The Domain Name Supporting Organization should be encouraged to
consider this long-term issue. It should include in its
consideration whether the issue is better addressed outside the
ICANN process, such as the WIPO-2 process and other intergovernmental
fora.
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See also:
http://websvr01.afilias.info/whois_search/reserved_names
(I really like santasede-statodellacittadelvaticano.info...)
Best regards,
/// Alexander
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