<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></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=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Aug 2019, at 17:38, Sophie Hey <<a href="mailto:sophie.hey@valideus.com" class="">sophie.hey@valideus.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; 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=""><<City names present challenges because city names may also be generic terms or brand names, and in many cases city names are not unique.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""> Dear Sophie Hey, Dear All,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would propose to replace the above sentence with the following:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><<Some generic terms or brand names present challenges because they may also be city or other geographic names. In some cases city names are not unique.>></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Rationale: (a). The city names pre-date the Brand or the gTLD, if any.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(b) The cases of duplication of geographical names are in fact quite few. In nearly all cases they tend to be limited to several post colonial situations which are - granted - sensitive in some contexts, but hardly represent the generality of geographical names.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For instance, with the exception of the Amerindian locations, most duplicated names in North America can be traced back to their French, Spanish or English origins. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope this is helpful</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">CW</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>