[Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5] Conference call: geographical names

[lists@christopherwilkinson.eu Wilkinson]

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>     Good morning:
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>     Allow me to respond to and comment on our recent thread. Much of what I have to contribute today has already been mentioned in recent PDP and WT5 conference calls and related Chats.
>     The general position is motivated by three fundamental considerations:
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>     - the right to use a geographical name pertains in the first instance to the people who live there, and have often done so for hundreds of years. It is a matter of identity, and to qualify those rights as a fantasy would appear to many people to be quite frivolous.
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>     - the entities exercising those rights need not be central governments, who may yet do so by default. I would prefer to see a system based on subsidiarity and devolution
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>     - whatever régime is finally adopted, it should be future-proof. These issues today are not what they were 20 years ago. Nor are they what they will become in 20 years time.
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These considerations are set out in more detail in the attached paper, which I shall copy to the List in a separate posting.

Regards

Christopher Wilkinson
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