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| Person Completing Form: | Olof Nordling | Email: | Date: | 25-Aug-2015 |
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Work Effort Section |
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| 1) Name/Title of Work Effort: (Note: "Work Effort" might be a standing committee or a project with a life-cycle. Please keep this field relatively short and enter fuller description immediately below). | Protection of Geographic Names | ||||||||||||||
| 2) Description: | The focus of the working group is to examine how to improve the protections offered to Geographic Names in any future expansion of gTLDs. | ||||||||||||||
| 3) Purpose/Goal of Work Effort: | The objective of the GAC Working Group to examine the Protection of Geographic Names in any Future Expansion of gTLDs is to review and consider any necessary improvements to the existing protections by: • Examining (and describing) how relevant sections of the GAC Principles Regarding new gTLDs were implemented in practice. • Examining (and describing) how relevant sections of the new gTLD Applicant Guidebook were implemented in practice. • Clearly explaining why protections for geographic names are necessary as a matter of good public policy. • Developing practical options that are aimed at improving protection of geographic names during any future expansion of gTLDs. • Developing practical suggestions and rules to lower uncertainties both for the governments, communities and also for the applicants, once using a geographic or community name. • Developing best practice rules to avoid misuse of geographic and community names as new gTLDs and at the same time lowering uncertainties for the applicants, trademarks and the business involved. • Defining the terms “Public Interest”, “geographic name” and “community interests” or others that may be relevant to the Advice issued by GAC in Durban (2012). • Engaging with the Cross Community Working Group in the use of Country/territory Names as TLDs, and any other ICANN bodies or groups dealing with similar issues. • Proactively engaging with the GAC, ICANN and the ICANN community to develop support for the agreed best options. | ||||||||||||||
4) Subject Matter Category: Click here to see a list of categories
| Policy Development | ||||||||||||||
| 5) Subject Matter Sub-Category: (Note: Where applicable, identify the next lower level of Category, e.g., if Category is Policy Development, Sub-Category might be: Whois, IRTP, New gTLD, IDN) | New gTLD | ||||||||||||||
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| 7) Date Work Effort Commenced: |
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| 10) Type of Group Performing Work Effort: | Working Group | ||||||||||||||
| 10A) If Answer To Question 9 Is "Other", Please Specify Here: | |||||||||||||||
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Work Effort Data SectionDisclaimer: The next two sections are not mandatory; however, the intention is to begin collecting certain quantifiable information for use in understanding ICANN's aggregate work effort, especially as it might be useful in possible prioritization. It may be challenging to obtain accurately; however, even a rough or crude estimate will provide utility, so you are encouraged to provide your best judgment.
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12) Historical Data (if applicable):
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13) Snapshot Data: The effective period for each Snapshot will be the end of one ICANN meeting to the start of the next, e.g., ICANN53 (25 Jun 2015) - ICANN54 (18 Oct 2015)
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SOAC Work Effort Template v2 (August 2015)
