[governance] Re: New TLDs

[Bertrand de La Chapelle]

On 4/23/07, Michael Leibrandt <michael_leibrandt at web.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Bertrand,
>
> Having a German academic background, I feel a somewhat natural symphathy
> for rules and categories. But the problem with TLD is that even within
> specific categories you will find some very distinct under-categories. To
> give you an example regarding City TLD: In Germany, some city names are
> protected as trademarks, some are not. So completely different rules would
> have to be aplied to proposals for .solingen or .buxtehude.


Interesting case. Did not know. But probably does not mean completely
different rules, just that a large range of criteria will be taken into
account.

With regard to the development of evaluation rules: Don't you think that for
> a specific set of possible TLD, Geo-TLD, the new GAC Principles do already
> contain some quite important and clear evaluation criteria (e.g. support
> of the relevant local authority)?


I would say yes, "some"criteria, but the whole set is not complete yet.

Best

Bertrand

Michael
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