[Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5] Notes and Action Items - New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Work Track 5 - 04 April 2018

[Annebeth Lange]

Would a possibility be to include only the official language(s) of all countries, or would that be too much as well? I agree with Javier that UN Languages, plus the official language of the country is the easiest. However, it is fairly restricted, as there are many languages in the world used extensively by others, to take German and Portuguese as an example.

Annebeth

From: Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5 <gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5-bounces at icann.org> on behalf of Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap at NLnetLabs.nl>
Date: Wednesday, 4 April 2018 at 21:10
To: "gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5 at icann.org" <gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5 at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5] Notes and Action Items - New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Work Track 5 - 04 April 2018

I deleted quite some text but this part from Yrjö Länsipuro message:

> Some languages have their specific names not only for the "own"
> country but for most other countries as well.. In some cases,
> protecting those other versions (eg., in the languages of neighboring
> countries, or in non-UN languages such as German or Japanese) might
> be important for the government. Should governments have the option
> of protecting the name of the country in  additional languages?

This is known as exonym and endonyms[*]. As an example, the Netherlands
is not only knows as "Holland" but also as "Pays-Bas", "Niederlande"
etc. while the Dutch tend to talk about "Frankrijk", "Duitsland".
In case people want to consider this for TLDs the amount of 140.000
names mentioned in the call (7000 lnguages, 200 countries) will
easely grows a couple of magnitudes.

                jaap

[*] For a quick introduction, see the lemma in Wikipedia
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exonym_and_endonym>.
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