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<div>Dear Nigel,</div>
<div>Thank you for your note and welcome to our Group. We are very happy that you are interested in our work and would like to thank you for your constructive feedback. We will certainly add these to our collections of views on the issue of 2-letter codes.
We would very much encourage you – as well as any of your fellow GAC members – to continue following our discussion and contribute wherever possible.</div>
<div>Please note that we are meeting every other week for our conference calls and very much hope we can welcome you on these in the future. </div>
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<div>Very best wishes, </div>
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<div>Annebeth Lange (co-chair in the crosscom on c & t names)</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Nigel Cassimire <<a href="mailto:nigel.cassimire@ctu.int">nigel.cassimire@ctu.int</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday 22 June 2015 18:41<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:ctn-crosscom@icann.org">ctn-crosscom@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:ctn-crosscom@icann.org">ctn-crosscom@icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Ctn-crosscom] Principles / Objectives for Options Paper<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the invitation to today’s CWG meeting which I attended as an Observer member of the GAC and which enlightened my understanding of the work of the group. I think the options paper is an appropriate way to record and structure
the principles, findings and recommendations of the group and I would like to submit a few comments I was not able to make today before time ran out.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->I support the idea of including in the options paper certain guiding principles for formulating ultimate recommendations e.g. standards-based references for county or territory names. I also advocate making or keeping “sufficiently
clear differentiation” as one of these principles.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Two letter codes at the TLD level are universally recognised as country codes and this should remain so, notwithstanding a few instances where they might have been used for purposes other than country identification e.g. .TV. To
do otherwise would be to diminish the branding efforts of the great majority of ccTLDs, particularly ones with strong brands like .ca, .br and .mx to name a few.
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Incumbency has its privileges. The 2-letter TLDs as country codes is a part of the Internet eco-system that is widely understood and functioning well. It is quite likely that commercial interests with 2-letter brands could find (and
already have) commercially acceptable and distinctive alternatives to a 2-letter TLD.
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->In making policy it is wise to keep in mind the average Internet user who is not as well informed as persons involved in ICANN processes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Segoe Script', sans-serif;">Nigel Cassimire<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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