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

[Joseph Friedman <josephf@touro.edu>]

Eric,

There is a differance between a _proposed_ authoritive text and an
existing policy.  The proposed text is not (and may not become) policy.
What I stated was the policy as it stands today.

--Joseph

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Eric Brunner wrote:

> [Going over the daily limit, but stopping here for the day]
> 
> Joseph,
> 
> My query has to do with the authoritative source for the asserted policy
> that two octet length TLDs in the IN class consisting of letters are
> reserved, and to whom.
> 
> In the early versions of draft-ietf-dnsind-iana-dns-0?.txt we (Eastlake,
> Manning and Brunner) wrote:
> 
> version -00
> 
>    All two octet length TLDs in the IN class consisting of letters are
>    reserved for assignment to territories.  Those (1) allocated by [ISO
>    3166] and (2) allocated by the Universal Postal Union [UPU] and
>    reserved in [ISO 3166] even though not formally assigned by [ISO
>    3166] (e.g., a few British Channel Islands), are assigned as so
>    allocated by the generally recognized acting government of the area
>    associated with the "country code" or on a first come first served
>    basis to a designated registry if there is no such government or the
>    government has not exercised control.
>    ...
>    Country codes consisting of a letter and a digit or two digits are
>    not currently used by [ISO 3166] or the [UPU].  However, to permit
>    possible expansion of the two octet country codes, they are reserved
>    for future allocation as described in the previous paragraph.
> 
> version -01
> 
>    Two octet length ASCII label TLDs in the Internet CLASS consisting of
>    letters are for assignment to geo-political territories.  Those (1)
>    allocated by [ISO 3166] and (2) allocated by the Universal Postal
>    Union [UPU] and reserved in [ISO 3166] even though not formally
>    assigned by [ISO 3166], are assigned as so allocated.  Two letter
>    codes reserved by [ISO 3166] for local use or the like are also
>    reserved as TLDs as are two letter TLDs not yet allocated or reserved
>    by [ISO 3166] or the [UPU].  A generally recognized acting government
>    of the territory associated with a "country code" has priority to act
>    as or designate the registrar for such TLDs. 
> 
> By version -03 we'd removed all reference to 3166. Now as the authors of
> the proposed authoritative text on the Domain Name System (DNS) IANA
> considerations, relative to the two-octet ASCII labels, I'm really very
> curious where the assertion you made finds its authoritative reference.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
>