The next meeting for the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Sub Team – Track 5 – Geographic Names at the Top Level will take place on Wednesday, 12 June 2019 at 20:00 UTC for 90 minutes. 

13:00 PDT, 16:00 EDT, 22:00 Paris CEST, (Thursday) 01:00 Karachi PKT, (Thursday) 05:00 Tokyo JST, (Thursday) 06:00 Melbourne AEST 

For other times: https://tinyurl.com/y3uz73pj

PROPOSED AGENDA

  1. Welcome/Agenda Review/SOI Updates
  2. Reminder of Process (PDF attached)
  3. Recommendations Review Status Tracking Document (PDF attached)
  4. Summary Document Review (PDF pending): 
    1. Geographic Terms Requiring Letters of Support/Non-Objection (Recommendations 10, 12, 13)
    2. Capital city names, Sub-national place names (county, province, or state, listed in the ISO 3166-2 standard), UNESCO or M49 Area
    3. 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:
      1. The official language of the country/territory/capital city.
      2. Translations of the country/territory/capital city in UN languages.


WT5 members are encouraged to consider this and to put forward suggestions via the email list as well as during our next call.

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

      5. AOB

Background Documents

For agenda item 4, please review the Google document at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rsyxCEBd6ax3Rb_w1kms_E9n29XL1_lw3Yp9XQ4TeCY/edit?ts=5ce64d6d# [docs.google.com] 

WT5 Preliminary Recommendations Review Status[2].pdf

Work Track 5 Overview.pdf

RECORDINGS

Audio Recording

Zoom Recording

Chat Transcript

GNSO transcripts are located on the GNSO Calendar

PARTICIPATION

Attendance  

Apologies: Annebeth Lange, Luca Barbero, Nick Wenban-Smith, Justine Chew

 

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.

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