Re: [wg-c] Commission Working paper on the creation of .EU

["Kevin J. Connolly" <CONNOLLK@rspab.com>]

Joseph Friedman <josephf@touro.edu>  wrote 02/03/00 10:07AM >>>


>No .EU should be created.  .XX is reserved for the ISO country code list.

>--Joseph

Sometimes, it's dangerous to let lawyers get involved in the more technical 
aspects of this process.  (I exclude myself from the dangerous category only 
because lawyer though I am, I'm reasonably safe on the technology; it's the 
policy decisions where I'm dangerous :-)

Just because countries _normally_ map into a two-letter TLD <RFCs 1032, 
1591> does not mean that two-letter TLD's are reserved for country codes.  
Formally, Mr. Friedman's post reduces to the statement that "all A is B, 
therefore all B is A."  I trust that we all (even those whose last contact with 
formal logic was high school geometry) recognize that as a fallacy.

I have diligently looked for, but have not found, any Internet documents 
which reserve two-letter TLDs to country domains.  If such a reservation 
is in effect, then please (a) accept my apology in advance and (b) cite
 the relevant document.

Kevin J. Connolly
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Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman LLP.
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