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Re: [wg-c] Commission Working paper on the creation of .EU
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Kevin,
In the internet there is no such thing. These things were always at the whim
of Dr Postel as long as he didn't raize the ire of the NSF. Now with the DoC
being involved and ICANN doing what it pleases, anything is probably fair game.
But the fact remains that he is correct, it is the current practice, and I
fully support it remaining that way.
So then the question remains, do regions qualify for "regional" domains in the
ccTLD class?
Interesting question.
But rather than places them in the 2 letter domain category traditionally
reserved for ISO-3166 based delegation, I would much prefer to see them use a 3
letter variation, like .eur, which makes more sense anyway.
I also think that Milton has it spot on. There is absolutely NO reason why the
European Union proposal should be considered as ANY different from any new TLD,
and subject to all of the processes that are being developed for same.
On 03-Feb-2000 Kevin J. Connolly wrote:
> We are al still waiting with bated breath for a citation to ab authoritative
> text which supports the proposition that .eu may not be delegated to the EC
> as a region.
>
>>>> Joseph Friedman <josephf@touro.edu> 02/03/00 04:22PM >>>
> 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
>>
>
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