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

["A.M. Rutkowski" <amr@netmagic.com>]

>They have not been designated by the ISO for the ISO-3166 1.

Hi Joe,

There's an interesting game being played vis-a-vis the
ISO.  The CEC in its paper states that they obtained
a letter in which the German national standards agency
DIN, as ISO 3166 maintainer, says that it "...has no
objections against the exceptionally reserved alpha-2
code element EU being used as a ccTLD identifier."
See p 4.

However, it's not being proposed as a ccTLD identifier,
but as a regional intergovernmental organization identifier.
The CEC can do all the handwaiving it wants, but plainly
its use is not as a country.  Furthermore, who is it for
the German government standards agency to degree what
codes may or may not be used by Internet users?  When
was IANA's authority transferred to the DIN?

--tony