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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dear Jeff et al</span>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I thought this could be an informative reference point for WT5. </span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The US Board on Geographic Names rules on hundreds of naming decisions each year and maintains geographical databases (available at <a href="http://geonames.usgs.gov/" target="_top" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); text-decoration: none;">geonames.usgs.gov</a>)
containing more than two million domestic records and over 11 million records for foreign names. There are some conflicts with established trademarks though!</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Should BGN be the point of reference for geo name gTLDs? Or is there any other global database anyone in the group knows of which can be built into policy by WT5? It would speed things up for WT5
recommendations.</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By way of comparison, for country code gTLDs ISO 3166 has been adopted as the point of reference.</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It might interest you to know that .Amazon or .PersianGulf do not find mention in these lists for proscription! Do correct me if I am wrong.</span></div>
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On 30 Nov 2017, at 09:52, Jeff Neuman <<a href="mailto:jeff.neuman@comlaude.com">jeff.neuman@comlaude.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With respect to the Scope of the Terms of Reference, please keep in mind that this section refers only to what will be discussed. It is intended to make sure the right questions are being asked and the right topics are being covered.
It should also be neutral in nature to allow all sides of an issue to be discussed.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Therefore, may I suggest a slight rewording of that first paragraph to the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">Work Track 5 will focus on developing proposed recommendations regarding the treatment of geographic names at the top level (both in ASCII and IDN form), including whether such names
require consent or non-objection from applicable governmental authorities, evaluation criteria and potential grounds for objection.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This shorter rewording moves the consent or non-objection part up in the paragraph from where it is now. The new wording does not preclude any discussions on “approvals” nor does it implicitly endorse an approval-based model. It (hopefully)
is neutral and by virtue of having the word “consent” in the paragraph will naturally lead to discussions on how one obtains consent or non-objection if required. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In addition, the term consent is already in the Applicant Guidebook, so it is a term that we are all familiar with. And finally, according to
<a href="http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/consent">http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/consent</a>, the term “Consent” is synonymous with, “approval, assent, authorization, permission, allowance, acquiescence”, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is being provided as a suggestion only to move forward the conversation. It is not being provided in any official capacity.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0F9347">Jeffrey J. Neuman</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0F9347">Senior Vice President </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">|</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#C39209">Valideus
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">1751 Pinnacle Drive, Suite 600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">Mclean, VA 22102, United States<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">M: +1.202.549.5079<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#4F4F4F">@Jintlaw<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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