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GAC Advice

The GAC provides advice to the ICANN Board on policy matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN’s policies and various laws, international agreements and public policy objectives. GAC Advice is communicated to the ICANN Board through either a Communique or a formal piece of Correspondence.

2014-06-25 Geographic Names

GAC Advice

Reference No. :

2014-06-25 Geographic Names

First Delivered 25 Jun 2014 via :

ICANN50 London Communique

Consenus:

Consensus met

2014-06-25 Geographic Names

10. Protection of Geographic Names in gTLDs

The GAC provided a briefing, led by the sub-group on geographic names of the working group on future gTLD issues, to the community on protection of geographic names in future new gTLD application rounds. Further work will be done on this matter and new updates will be provided at the next ICANN meeting.

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Letter from ICANN Board to Heather Dryden re NGPC meeting on 8 September 2014

Board Scorecard - 8 September 2014

The NGPC acknowledges the GAC’s work on the topic of protection of geographic names for future rounds of the New gTLD Program, and looks forward to additional updates from the GAC on this topic.