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

["Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M." <rod@cyberspaces.org>]

(I may have sent my comment off-list.)

The EU is proposing that it be authorized to operate the .eu TLD as an
additional ccTLD. I am wondering whether the EU is attempting to leapfrog
the DNSO and this Working Group's deliberations on gTLDs by claiming to
propose a ccTLD. It seems to me that the EC Treaty would not sufficiently
restrict the territorial reach of proposed TLD. Consequently, the registry
for the .eu TLD would be able to operate as a gTLD under the limited
constraints of ccTLD registries. If the ICANN board permits this, that would
be an abundantly clear indication that we are laboring in vain. ICANN should
cease approving additional ccTLDs until the DNSO finishes its work;
otherwise, I suggest we issue a report indicating that the Board's practice
has subverted the consensus-building process upon which ICANN was presumably
established, and that the continued continued consideration of establishing
ccTLDs has rendered the DNSO superfluous.




Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M.
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rod@cyberspaces.org