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Best Practice & Delegation/Re-delegation of ccTLD

Best Practices document for ccTLD Managers, version 4.0 and 4.1

Version 4.0, 10 March 2001, Melbourne: 20010310.BestPractice.html
Agreed in Melbourne by those ccTLD managers present, subject to subsequent electronic vote of ccTLD Managers to confirm it.

Version 4.1, 01 June 2001, Stockholm: 20010601.BestPractice.html.
One sentence has been modified.

History in the making

After the Cairo ICANN Meetings (6-10 March 2000), the Administrative Committee set up three ccTLD Working Groups:

• ccTLD WG1 - ICANN Services to ccTLD
• ccTLD WG2 - Best Practice & Delegation/Re-delegation of ccTLD
• ccTLD WG3 - Funding issues (ICANN, Secretariat)

The Best Practice & Delegation/Re-delegation of ccTLD Working Group is chaired by Antony van Couvering, co-chaired by Dennis Jennings, Yann Kwok, Bill Semich, Patricio Poblete.

The drafts has been prepared on the http://www.cctld-drafting.org ccTLD Drafting site, where all information and related documents may be found.

These drafts for comment by ccTLD Constituency are:

June 12, 2000

• English Best Practice Guideliness for ccTLD Managers
• Spanish Lineamientos de Las Mejores Prácticas para Administradores de ccTLD
• Russian Best Practice Guideliness for ccTLD Managers
• Chinese Best Practice Guideliness for ccTLD Managers
• French Les Directrices Best Practice pour les Directeurs ccTLD

August 16, 2000

• Arabic Best Practice Guideliness for ccTLD Managers

September 5, 2000 , v3.2

• English Best Practice Guideliness for ccTLD Managers, in Word format
• Japanese Best Practice Guideliness for ccTLD Managers, in PDF format
• Korean Best Practice Guideliness for ccTLD Managers, in Word format

November 14, 2000, Marina del Rey (LA) document

• English Best Practice Guideliness for ccTLD Managers

June 18, 2000

• English Re/Delegation Guideliness for ccTLD Managers
• Spanish Lineamientos de Re/Delegación para Administradores de ccTLD
• Russian Re/Delegation Guideliness for ccTLD Managers
• Chinese Re/Delegation Guideliness for ccTLD Managers
• Arabic Re/Delegation Guideliness for ccTLD Managers
• Korean Re/Delegation Guideliness for ccTLD Managers, in Word format

The translation to Spanish was made by Oscar Robles, with the caveat Please note that this translations ARE NOT authoritative and may have slightly different sense on the meaning of some phrases.

The translation to Russian was made by Maria Stepanova maria@nns.ru in consultation with Basil (Vassily) Dolmatov dol@east.ru and Seva Gluschenko gvs@rinet.ru, under the recomendations of Stanislaw Raczynski stas@ipmce.ru, Dmitry Morozovsky marck@rinet.ru, Andrey V. Stolyarov crocodil@express.ru and Kira Litvina lkm@ripn.net, and with technical support of Sergey Vovk vsv@macomnet.ru. The remark about the authors of translation is included in Russian versions of Best Practices and Re/Delegation Guideliness.

The translation to Chinese is a curtesy of Prof. Walter Wu walterwu@cnnic.net.cn

The translation to French is a curtesy of Yann Kwok yann@netbox.com

The translation to Japanese is a curtesy of Yumi Ohashi yumi@nic.ad.jp

The translation to Arabic is a curtesy of .AE Registry and Sultan Al Shamsi sultan76@emirates.net.ae

The translation to Korean is a curtesy of .KR Registry and Myungkoo Kang kangmk@snu.ac.kr of Seoul National University

Links to related documents:

• GAC document adopted on February 23th 2000 (text version), this document exists in other formats as well as in French on the main GAC site main GAC site.
• The same GAC document in HTML format on the ICANN site.
• CENTR Best Practice as on June 1st 2000 submitted to its Members for further decisions.
• ICANN Yokohama Meeting Topic, ccTLD Delegation and Administration Policies, posted 5 July 2000
• Discussion Draft of ccTLD Manager-ICANN "Status Quo" Agreement, posted 5 July 2000
• Governmental Advisory Committee - Communiqué from Yokohama meeting , posted 14 July 2000.