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

Working Group Members

ccNSO

Lucila Abate, .ar
Monica Capparelli, .ar
Neil El Himam, .id
Jordi Iparraguirre,
Erick Iriarte Ahon, .pe
Daniel Kalchev, .bg
Annebeth Lange, .no (Co-Chair)
Young-Eum Lee, .kr
Han Liyun, .cn
Carlos Marco Liuzzi, .ar
Rosalía Morales, .cr
Jacqueline Morris, .tt
Sebastien Pensis, .eu
Sanna Sahlman, .fi,
Grigori Saghyan, .am
Ron Sherwood, .vi
Paul Szyndler, .au (Co-Chair)
Mirjana Tasic, .rs
Mary Uduma, .ng
Timo Võhmar, .ee
Laura Watkins, .uk

GNSO

Philip Adar, BC
Benjamin Akinmoyeje, NCUC
Maxim Alzoba, RySG
Griffin Barnett, IPC
Chris Chaplow, BC
Ching Chiao, RySG (Co-Chair)
Mason Cole, RySG
Sonigitu Ekpe, NCUC
Heather Forrest, IPC (Co-Chair)
Robin Gross, NCSG
Carlos Raul Gutierrez, Nomcom Appointee to the GNSO
Scott Harlan, IPC
Hector Manoff, IPC
Osvaldo Novoa, IPC
Ghislain Nyamfit Ngamba, individual
Colin O'Brien, IPC
Susan Payne, IPC
Ganeswar Sahoo, NCUC
Cintra Sooknanan, NPOC
Marc Trachtenberg, IPC
Brian Winterfeldt, IPC
Alexander Schubert, RySG

ALAC

Inam Ali, ALAC
Fouad Bajwa, APRALO
Cheryl Langdon-Orr, ALAC

GAC

Olga Cavalli, Argentina
Edmund Katiti, NEPAD (GAC Observer)
Mzia Gogilashvili, Georgia
Nigel Cassimire, Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU)
Ornulf Storm, Norway
Panagiotis Papaspiliopoulos, Greece
Milagros Castanon Seoane, Peru

Other

Jaap Akkerhuis, Expert

Objective and Scope

The objective of the Working group is to draw upon the collective expertise of the participating SOs and ACs and others, and based on the initial analysis of the ccNSO Study Group on the uSe of names for Countries and territories as TLDs, further review the current status of representations of country and territory names, as they exist under current ICANN policies, guidelines and procedures. Secondly, provide advice regarding the feasibility of developing a consistent and uniform definitional framework that could be applicable across the respective SO's and AC's; and should such a framework be deemed feasible, provide detailed advice as to the content of the framework. The scope of the WG is limited to:

Representations of names of Countries, Territories and their subdivisions listed on or eligible to be listed on the Alpha-2 code International Standard for country codes and codes for their subdivisions (ISO 3166-1), (Names of Country and Territory). Other geographical indicators, such as regions, are excluded;
The use of Country and Territory names as Top Level Domains. The use of Country and Territory names as second or other level is excluded.

Working Group Charter

Working Group Members

Objective and Scope

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