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Notes/ Action Items

Notes and Action Items:

Actions:

ACTION ITEM 1: Staff will post reference documents in a central location on the wiki.

ACTION ITEM 2: The "UNESCO region" URL in the 2012 applicant guidebook http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/worldwide/ is no longer live - so an updated URL needs to found.  the M49 area URL in the 2012 AGB http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm redirects to https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/ so perhaps this URL should be used instead

Notes:

1. Updates to Statements of Interest (SOI): No updates.

2. Summary Document Review:

a. Capital city names, Sub-national place names (county, province, or state, listed in the ISO 3166-2 standard), UNESCO or M49 Area (Recommendations 10, 12, 13)

Capital City Names:

-- NCSG comments -- may pick up again later when discussing new ideas.

Subnational Place Names:

-- Cannot prioritize or alter the text of comments and the summary document is just a summary.

UNESCO or M49 Area:

b. Languages:  At our last meeting we reviewed the comments relating to the language requirement for geographic terms: "An application for any string that is a representation, in any language, of the capital city name of any country or territory listed in the ISO 3166-1 standard".  There was general acceptance and no objections towards refining the language requirements to reflect more relevance and practical applicability. At this stage, the group considered the following option to be a suitable base for further discussion:

• The official language of the country/territory/capital city.
• Translations of the country/territory/capital city in UN languages.

Discussion/Proposals:

-- Add transliterations into ASCII and conversions into DNS labels.  Possible problem: If you transliterate from a different character set it generally cannot work as there is not standard for transliteration.

-- Suggest limiting the number of languages and noting that in some countries there will be more than one official language.

-- Also, should include local DNS version.

-- Have a principle on what we think would be a useful scope.  Look also to experts and how INGOs have been handled (Red Cross and IOC names).

c. Geographic Terms That Require Letters of Support/Non-Objection Dependent Upon Intended Usage (Recommendation 11)

-- Currently in AGB there is a provision for intended use.

-- Proposal for balancing competing interests.

-- A string is just a term that can have many meanings.  Just because it may have a geographical meaning does not make it always the geographical term.

-- Comments about a lack of rationale for protections.

-- Names could have multiple legitimate uses and meanings.

ACTION: Share on the list any comments as to whether WT5 members thing there is a need to adjust the preliminary recommendation.