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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Norway has been engaged in the discussions on the use of countries and territories as top level domain throughout the whole process regarding new gTLDs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The discussion on the use of geographical names, including meaningful representations and abbreviations, have shown to be very controversial in the Communety discussions.
In this context, the current applicant guidebook section 2.2.1.4.1 is a result of long discussions and should be recognized as a compromise and a baseline for the future treatment of country and territory names as new gTLDs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">ISO 3166-1 3-letter codes have strong associations with the country or territory they represent, sometimes even stronger than their 2-letter equivalent.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Norway has the view that any further discussions on country or territory names, including meaningful representations and abbreviation as TLDs should be a community wide process in form of a
cross-community working party where at least the ccNSO and the GAC, apart from interested parties from the GNSO, would need to participate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">recall standing GAC advice on this matter, in particular:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:NO-BOK"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“GAC principles regarding new gTLDs” from March 2007”</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">, that refers
to the sensitivities regarding terms with national, cultural, geographical and religious significance,
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://gacweb.icann.org/display/GACADV/2007-03-28-gTLD-3?preview=/28278820/41943560/gac-principles-regarding-new-gtlds-28mar07-en.pdf"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">https://gacweb.icann.org/display/GACADV/2007-03-28-gTLD-3?preview=/28278820/41943560/gac-principles-regarding-new-gtlds-28mar07-en.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“GAC advice from the Nairobi Communiqué 2010”, annex b, where
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">the GAC underline that strings that are a meaningful representation or abbreviation of a country or territory name should not be allowed in the gTLD space”.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://gacweb.icann.org/download/attachments/27131983/GAC_37_Nairobi_Communique.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1312226773000&api=v2"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">https://gacweb.icann.org/download/attachments/27131983/GAC_37_Nairobi_Communique.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1312226773000&api=v2</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“GAC advice from the Helsinki Communique 2016”, part IV, section 4, where the GAC gives direct advice to the use of 3-letter codes in the ISO-3166 list as gTLDs in future
rounds. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://gacweb.icann.org/display/GACADV/GAC+Communiques?preview=/27492514/43712817/20160630_GAC%20ICANN%2056%20Communique_FINAL%20%5B1%5D.pdf"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">https://gacweb.icann.org/display/GACADV/GAC+Communiques?preview=/27492514/43712817/20160630_GAC%20ICANN%2056%20Communique_FINAL%20%5B1%5D.pdf</span></i></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Kind Regards,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:NO-BOK"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Ørnulf Storm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">GAC, Norway<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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