GAC proposal to ban top level domains that use a geographic word unless permission granted from govt (next rounds of gtlds)

[William Drake]

On Oct 7, 2014, at 2:54 AM, joy <joy at apc.org> wrote:

>  ban on names is not the answer, nor is a veto: but some legitimate process for dealing with conflicting or competing rights remains needed

+1.  Geo has always been one of the more interesting fault lines within our tribe and civil society more generally, and when we have some head space post-LA it might be worth trying to have a more focused conversation as to what such a process might entail.  Would provide an opportunity to seriously engage with GAC as well, which could be useful.  It’s sort of odd that in the ICANN space CS and governments have little real communication, whereas in other global IG spaces we talk and even work with them a lot.

Bill
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