The Study Group's goal is to provide the ccNSO Council, ccTLD community and other interested stakeholders, including the GAC and GNSO Council, an overview of the scope and issues associated with the use of Country and Territory names as TLD strings and the scope and impact of alternative action paths on IDN ccTLD and new gTLD processes.

Statement of Purpose

Study Group Wiki Workspace

Study Group Members

ccNSO

• Martin Boyle, .uk
• Joke Braeken, .eu
• Becky Burr, .us
• Henry Chan, .hk
• Ian Chiang, .tw
• Keith Davidson, .nz
• Sokol Haxhiu, NomCom Appointee to the ccNSO Council
• Hiro Hotta, .jp
• Annebeth Lange, .no
• Young-Eum Lee, .kr
• Leo Maluwa, .mw
• Nigel Roberts, .gg
• Grigori Saghyan, .am
• Ron Sherwood, .vi
• Paul Szyndler, .au (Chair)
• Maarten Simon, .nl

GAC

• Elise Lindeberg, Norway

GNSO

• Carlos Aguirre - GNSO Nominating Committee Appointee
• George Asare-Sakyi - NCSG
• Iliya Bazlyankov - RrSG
• Chris Chaplow - CBUC (Observer)
• Ching Chiao - RySG
• Avri Doria - NCSG
• Heather Forrest, IPC
• Volker Greimann - RrSG
• Tony Harris- ISPCP 

Glossary

NCSG = Non Commercial Stakeholder Group
RySG = Registries Stakeholder Group
RrSG = Registrars Stakeholder Group
ISPCP = Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers Constituency
IPC = Intellectual Property Constituency

At-Large

• Hawa Diakite, AFRALO
• Eduardo Diaz (NARALO)
• Cheryl Langdon-Orr, APRALO (liaison)
• Sophie Liang (APRALO)
• Andres Piazza (LACRALO)
• Rudi Vansnick, EURALO

Specialists

• Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg, UNESCO

Support Staff

• Bart Boswinkel, ccNSO
• Kristina Nordström, ccNSO
• Gabriella Schittek, ccNSO

Document

• Study Group Progress Report – June 2012

Transcripts

• Transcript Telephone Conference 13 March 2013
• Transcript Telephone Conference 30 January 2013
• Transcript Toronto Meeting 15 October 2012
• Transcript Prague Meeting 25 June 2012
• Transcript Telephone Conference 6 June 2012
• Transcript Telephone Conference 23 May 2012
• Transcript Telephone Conference 9 May 2012
• Transcript Telephone Conference 25 April 2012
• Transcript Costa Rica Meeting 15 March 2012
• Transcript Telephone Conference 20 February 2012
• Transcript Telephone Conference 26 January 2012
• Transcript Telephone Conference 19 December 2011
• Transcript Telephone Conference 12 October 2011
• Transcript Singapore Meeting 23 June 2011
• Transcript Telephone Conference 11 May 2011

Presentations

• Country Names Study Group Update - San Francisco 2011

Mp3 recordings of the Working Group meetings can be found at http://ccnso.icann.org/calendar.