Re: [alac] WIPO2 comments to ICANN

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:06 AM 05/12/2003 -0500, Erick Iriarte Ahon wrote:
> A question :)
>
> "....
> Country Names
>
> The language on country names once again relies upon criteria applied to 
> the "registration or use" of domain names. The same concerns as above apply.
>
> Once again, it seems more appropriate to give each country control of its 
> name (and any other character strings it chooses) in its unique ccTLD, not 
> to grant it monopoly rights in strings across all TLDs."
>
> I don't understand so good, the second idea.... " give each country 
> control of its name".. the idea is give "each country (government)" the 
> control of cctld ? so... give the control of nic ??...

The document is only talking about the country-name string, not control of 
the entire ccTLD.  The idea was that countries could control their 
<country-name.ccTLD> but don't get the string elsewhere.  For example, 
France could demand france.fr (and republiquefrancaise.fr, republique.fr if 
it wanted), but it would not have rights to france.com, france.biz, 
france.net etc.

--Wendy



> I don't support this idea, and some people fight with similar idea in the 
> WSIS document, the cctld administration and the "rights" about .xx (based 
> in the iso 3166-1 alpha 2), is not "appropriate" to give "some kind of" 
> control in the cctld administration.
>
> Maybe i don't read good, and wendy can tell-me what mean this phrase! :)
>
> Erick
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> At 06:23 p.m. 11/05/2003 -0700, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
> > Attached (and at <http://wendy.seltzer.org/icann/alac-on-wipo2.html> in 
> > rough HTML) is our statement on WIPO's recommendations to ICANN, revised 
> > from draft to note the public comment we received.  We'll send this to 
> > Louis Touton tomorrow, as requested.
> >
> > --Wendy

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