Re: [wg-c] .eu and the notion of regional TLDs

[Eric Brunner <brunner@world.std.com>]

Dave,

My only disagreement is whether the EU need an entry in iso3166, and
as a practical matter, having an entry is the only visible mechanism
to have standing to request delegation of administrative authority to
liais on DNS issues and operate a TLD registry.

However, that said, (and I covered most of the ground in mail to the
wg-c public archive last July, see
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/dnsocomments/comments-gtlds/Archives/msg00000.html
for most of the gory details), there are two issues I see:

	1. the IANA considerations one, does iso3166 exhaust the set
	   of 2 octect ASCII encoded lables in the DNS root, or are
	   the non-allocated lables reserved to the discretion of the
	   IANA?
	2. the UNSD considerations one, does an identifier exist in
	   "Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use, Rev 4"
	   (United Nations publication, Sales No. 98.XVII.9 in English,
	   French, Russian, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic) which is able
	   to be mapped (via the "Terminology Bulletin No. 347/Rev.1:
	   Country Names" accepted usage) to iso3166 for the regional
	   jurisdiction (territoriality) applicant?

The first is answered (reply to JF), the second is answered by in part
in ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/49/Rev.4/WWW (26 August 1999).

Cheers,
Eric