Re: [wg-c] Are cc:TLDs included in our Charter?

["A.M. Rutkowski" <amr@netmagic.com>]

At 09:35 AM 12/8/99 , you wrote:
> ccTLDS are obviously a very touchy political
> issue,
> both outside ICANN and in it.  Is creation of new
> ccTLDs

However, as related to the EU domain...

It is not a 3166-1 symbol, but a new species of regional 
generic TLD.

It's worth noting that this result was actually specified 
in the very first known European policy document relating 
to DNS. It was a EU Green Paper entitled "Towards a 
European Numbering Environment," released in 20 Nov 96. 

It's little known in the Internet world because 
it was largely directed toward telecoms numbering; and 
the sections on Internet policy were overlooked. See 
the section "Naming in the Internet" at 
http://www.ispo.cec.be/infosoc/telecompolicy/en/d7.htm

--tony