[governance] AW: New TLDs

[Kleinwächter, Wolfgang]

If GEO-TLDs (or cityTLDs) are an accepted category, you can find individual solutions for individual cases. Buxtehude (the composer and the city, as mentioned by Alejandro (he loves German music and should sit in the Board of .leipzig/Bach has lived here for decades) is only one example. Gets more comllciated if the name of a region is used as a trademark (Cognac, Champagne). The WIPO Report from 1999 has wonderful examples. And confusion can be everywhere. CA is California but .ca is Canada. 
 
But again, to stop this and say it is too cpomplex we stop it at the bginning, is not the answer. 
 
wolfgang

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Von: Bertrand de La Chapelle [mailto:bdelachapelle at gmail.com]
Gesendet: Di 24.04.2007 10:15
An: Michael Leibrandt
Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Kleinwächter, Wolfgang; LMcKnigh at syr.edu; Mueller at syr.edu; expression at ipjustice.org; goldstein.david at yahoo.com.au
Betreff: Re: New TLDs




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


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