[bc-gnso] RE: [Bc-private] FW: Call for volunteers: Cross-Community Working Group on the Use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs

["Chris Chaplow" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Glen,

 

I volunteer to join the 

Cross-Community Working Group on the Use of Country and Territory Names as
TLDs

 

best

 

Chris Chaplow
Managing Director
Andalucia.com S.L.
Avenida del Carmen 9
Ed. Puertosol, Puerto Deportivo
1ª Planta, Oficina 30
Estepona, 29680
Malaga, Spain
Tel: + (34) 952 897 865
Fax: + (34) 952 897 874
E-mail:  <mailto:chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web:  <http://www.andalucia.com/> www.andalucia.com
Information about Andalucia, Spain.

 

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Asunto: [Bc-private] FW: Call for volunteers: Cross-Community Working Group
on the Use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs

 

FYI

 

From: owner-liaison6c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-liaison6c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Glen de Saint Géry
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:59 AM
To: liaison6c
Subject: [liaison6c] Call for volunteers: Cross-Community Working Group on
the Use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs

 

 

Dear All,

 

Would you please make your membership aware of this call for volunteers.
Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you very much.

 

Kind regards,

Glen

 

Call for volunteers: Cross-Community Working Group on the Use of Country and
Territory Names as TLDs

 

In Brief

The Generic Names Supporting Organization is looking for volunteers to
participate in a new cross-community Working Group (CWG) on the Use of
Country and Territory Names as TLDs (UCTN). This CWG has been charted
jointly with the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) and it
is expected to review the current status of representations of country and
territory names as they exist under current ICANN policies, guidelines and
procedures and to provide advice on whether to develop a framework,
applicable across all SOs and ACs ? and if so, provide advice to the content
of such a framework.

 

What this CWG will do

The UCTN CWG has been
<http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/unct-framework-charter-27mar14-en.pdf>
charted to address three issues: 

1.      To review the current status of representations of country and
territory names, as they exist under current ICANN policies, guidelines and
procedures; 

2.      To provide advice regarding the feasibility of developing a
consistent and uniform definitional framework that could be applicable
across the respective SOs and ACs; and 

3.      Should such a framework be deemed feasible, to provide detailed
advice as to the content of the framework.

 

When tackling these issues, the UCTN CWG is advised to take into account the
<http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/unct-final-08sep12-en.pdf> Final
Report of the ccNSO Study Group on the Use of Names for Country and
Territory. According to its
<http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/unct-framework-charter-27mar14-en.pdf>
Charter, the scope of this CWG is limited to: 1) representations of names of
countries, territories and their subdivisions listed on or eligible to be
listed on the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code International Standard for country
codes and codes for their subdivisions, hereafter: Country and Territory
names (note: other geographical indicators, such as regions, are excluded);
2) the use of Country and Territory names as Top Level Domains (note: the
use of Country and Territory names at the second or other level is
excluded). However, if issues become apparent to the Co-chairs of the CWG
that are considered relevant, but outside the scope of the CWG, the
Co-Chairs of the WG, after consulting the members of the WG, shall inform
the Chairs of the participating SOs and ACs.  

 

How this team will work

ICANN WGs use transparent, open processes. The operational aspects of this
CWG will be further determined by the co-chairs at the start of the CWG?s
operations, but typically meetings are recorded, mailing lists are publicly
archived and GNSO members are expected to submit Statements of Interest (
<https://community.icann.org/display/gnsosoi/New+SOIs> SOI) in order to
participate. The group may decide to collaborate using a public workspace
for draft materials and all final work products and milestones will be
documented. 

 

Please note that as a working group member you are expected to attend
conference calls and to actively participate in online discussions. 

 

How to Join

The CWG is open to anyone interested to join. If you are interested to
participate, please send an email to the GNSO Secretariat (
<mailto:gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
preferably by 18 April 2014 at the latest, to indicate your interest to join
this Cross Community Working Group. 

 

Background

The ccNSO Study group on the use of Names for Country and Territory
published its Final Report in September 2013
(http://ccnso.icann.org/node/42227). The first of the two recommendations of
the Study Group to the ccNSO Council was to establish a cross community
working group to: 

 

·         Further review the current status of representations of country
and territory names, as they exist under current ICANN policies, guidelines
and procedures;

·         Provide advice regarding the feasibility of developing a
consistent and uniform definitional framework that could be applicable
across the respective SOs and ACs;

·         And, should such a framework be deemed feasible, provide detailed
advice as to the content of the framework.   

 

The ccNSO Council adopted the recommendations and, as the objective of the
proposed Working Group is considered to be of common interest to the broader
community, other Supporting Organisations (SOs), Advisory Committees (ACs)
and others were invited to participate in the working group on equal
footing, and should be preferably undertaken as a collaborative effort. To
this end the ALAC, GNSO and GAC were invited by the ccNSO Council to
participate in a Joint Working Group. The GNSO Council adopted the charter
for the CWG at its meeting on 26 March 2014.

 

Glen de Saint Géry 

GNSO Secretariat 

gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

http://gnso.icann.org