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

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>]

On Sat, 12 Feb 100, John Charles Broomfield 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.
> 
> Would you care to state the reason why Palestine has pushed so hard to get
> inclusion into ISO-3166 if not for the purpose of getting a ccTLD?

Might I suggest that this subject is more appropriate for a list dealing
with ccTLDs given the European Unions application to ISO for .eu, and is
off topic given my understanding of the charter of this list, which is to
deal with issues surrounding gTLDs?


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