<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><div style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Jul 2019, at 18:38, Julie Hedlund <<a href="mailto:julie.hedlund@icann.org" class="">julie.hedlund@icann.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 17.666667938232422px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">- Should be looking at which geographical terms, as defined, are not protected. You can’t define the non-AGB terms -- that is the universe. You can try to define the terms you are trying <font color="#ff0018" class="">NOT</font> to protect.</span></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Hello: There is a misunderstanding in the above text as it appears to be a summary of what I said in this afternoon’s call:</div><div style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 15px;" class="">The purpose of the proposal is to reverse the burden of proof. All geographical terms would be protected or reserved with the _exception_ of those explicitly NOT protected. Since I had to leave the call early, I would add that the latter might include grandfathering past mistakes, some of which were referred to during the call.</div><div style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Regards</div><div style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 15px;" class="">CW<br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div></body></html>