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

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 11:40:02AM -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
> > The European Union
> > has approached ISO and said "hi, we want the code '.eu' in ISO-3166". As
> > such, the ISO-3166 maintanance agency *seems* quite favorable in that it
> has
> > already included '.eu' in the list of reserved codes.
> 
> Correct. But what you're overlooking here is that this is probably the first
> time in the ISO-3166 list's history that a formal request has been made to
> add a code to the list specifically in order to qualify for a TLD.

Irrelevant for our purposes.

> > The only exception to that was the request
> > from UK to have ".uk" instead of ".gb" because it was more inclusive.
> 
> This is an interesting example of the retroactive creation of a myth to come
> up with a plausible explanation of something that was actually implausible.
> In fact, the British were the first to request and country code and Postel
> used .UK because he didn't bother to check the actual list! He thought it
> "obvious" it would be .UK.

Citation?  Or are you engagine in the retroactive creation of a myth to 
come up with a plausible explanation of something that was actually 
implausible. 

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