Hello Listers,<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1499278939062"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1499278940869">You can read my GIP observatory report on the same.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1499279031808">Link: <a id="linkextractor__1499279038653" data-yahoo-extracted-link="true" href="https://dig.watch/resources/gac-session-2-character-country-codes-second-level-domains">https://dig.watch/resources/gac-session-2-character-country-codes-second-level-domains</a></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1499279038721"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1499279040370">Kind regards</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1499279044719"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1499279045495">Bonface Witaba<br id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1499278916575"><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 21:07, Mueller, Milton L</div><div><milton@GATECH.EDU> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv7309990062"><style>#yiv7309990062 #yiv7309990062 --
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<p class="yiv7309990062MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> NCSG-Discuss [mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Seun Ojedeji<br clear="none">
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: two letter domain names and GAC</span></p>
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<p class="yiv7309990062MsoNormal">Interesting that this is generalised as "pronounce" but it seem to me that they are specific on the respective 2 letter (and 3 letters) country codes, and one may argue that there seem to be a logic to that regard.<span style="color:#1F497D;"></span></p>
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<p class="yiv7309990062MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Seun. Really. Has it occurred to you that some country codes are the same as pronouns? Like [it] for example? Or the same as other simple words, like [be]?
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<p class="yiv7309990062MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">We have been debating this issue for two decades now. We should know how to handle it. Some names have legitimate concurrent uses. It’s time to resist greedy
claims based on discredited rationales. No party – be it governments, trademark holders, intergovernmental organizations, or anyone else – can claim ownership of generic terms, initials, and pronouns in the ENTIRE domain name space simply because the letters
happen to correspond to an identifier they have used in another context. </span></p>
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<p class="yiv7309990062MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">NCUC’s position on this is, and should be, clear to all: we oppose unjustified land grabs in the domain name space, so that end users and noncommercial users
have a legitimate chance (not a guarantee) to use names they want. </span></p>
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<p class="yiv7309990062MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">There is a clear way to resolve these concurrent use conflicts, and it is through ex post (not ex ante) adjudication of whether the similarity is exploited to
confuse or defraud people. The idea that anyone who uses the string [it] in the second or third level of a domain name space is undermining the rights of Italy as a country is just so plainly silly to me that I wonder whether anyone here actually wants to
defend it. Any takers?</span></p>
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<p class="yiv7309990062MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Professor, School of Public Policy</span></p>
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<p class="yiv7309990062MsoNormal">On Jun 30, 2017 2:35 PM, "farzaneh badii" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="yiv7309990062MsoNormal"><span style="">I wrote about two-letter domain names around a year ago <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.internetgovernance.org/2016/08/26/another-government-land-grab-in-the-name-space/">http://www.internetgovernance.org/2016/08/26/another-government-land-grab-in-the-name-space/</a></span></p>
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<p class="yiv7309990062MsoNormal"><span style=""> It seems like some in GAC do not back off on this issue and now I found out that there will be a task force on this issue according to GAC communique. </span></p>
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<p class="yiv7309990062MsoNormal"><span style="">We have to be on this task force. There is no legitimate reason for governments to claim ownership over pronouns and other generic two letter domain names. Do I need permission from Italy to
register it.sucks? Also I am uneasy that they created a task force which relates to generic names (pronouns, remember) and GNSO is not even mentioned. </span></p>
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