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

[Joseph Friedman <josephf@touro.edu>]

IANA (a function of ICANN) has stated that it does not decide who is a
country. It uses the ISO-3166-1 list.

--Joseph

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Kevin J. Connolly wrote:

> 
> 
> Joseph Friedman <josephf@touro.edu>  wrote 02/03/00 10:07AM >>>
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> >No .EU should be created.  .XX is reserved for the ISO country code list.
> 
> >--Joseph
> 
> Sometimes, it's dangerous to let lawyers get involved in the more technical 
> aspects of this process.  (I exclude myself from the dangerous category only 
> because lawyer though I am, I'm reasonably safe on the technology; it's the 
> policy decisions where I'm dangerous :-)
> 
> Just because countries _normally_ map into a two-letter TLD <RFCs 1032, 
> 1591> does not mean that two-letter TLD's are reserved for country codes.  
> Formally, Mr. Friedman's post reduces to the statement that "all A is B, 
> therefore all B is A."  I trust that we all (even those whose last contact with 
> formal logic was high school geometry) recognize that as a fallacy.
> 
> I have diligently looked for, but have not found, any Internet documents 
> which reserve two-letter TLDs to country domains.  If such a reservation 
> is in effect, then please (a) accept my apology in advance and (b) cite
>  the relevant document.
> 
> Kevin J. Connolly
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