[gtld-tech] Specification 5 - Country names... again..

[Luis Muñoz]

On Dec 4, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Alexander Mayrhofer wrote:

> I do understand that the above document already contains readily translated / agreed country names for the six UN languages, as required in 5.4.2. However, i do also understand that the list that's now in the Github repository was actually produced using automated translation, which potentially could yield different results compared to extracting the list of country names from the document (or the respective source file)?
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> Therefore, could you please clarify whether the file that's now on the Github was produced by translation engines, or taken from said document? I think that's a significant impact on whether or not that file is usable to cover ICANN's requirement.

The file I provided was obtained by querying the source organization directly through their communication channels until reaching a person able to provide the official translations in a usable format. It wasn't automatically translated by our organization.

Best regards

-lem