Re: [wg-c] Are cc:TLDs included in our Charter?

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 07:11 AM 12/8/1999 , A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
>At 09:35 AM 12/8/99 , you wrote:
>>ccTLDS are obviously a very touchy political issue,
>>both outside ICANN and in it.  Is creation of new ccTLDs
>
>However, as related to the EU domain...
>
>It is not a 3166-1 symbol, but a new species of regional
>generic TLD.

"regional generic" TLD is an artfully meaningless term.

generic TLDs do not have anything to do with geography.

To the extent that there is anything about .eu to pursue, it is as an 
extension (or alternative) to ccTLDs.  The administrative model for ccTLDs 
is totally different from gTLDs.

>It's worth noting that this result was actually specified
>in the very first known European policy document relating
>to DNS. It was a EU Green Paper entitled "Towards a
>European Numbering Environment," released in 20 Nov 96.

Besides being 3 years old -- ie, ancient history for this realm -- the 
cited section contains no "specification" at all.

It is, rather, a call for comments.

d/

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