[At-Large] At-Large Use of Country and Territory Names as Top Level Domains
Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
ocl at gih.com
Wed Sep 23 13:28:09 UTC 2015
Hello Tim & all,
I am not sure I'm 100% in agreement here. I have concerns that so far
we've had ccTLDs that were running country-related TLDs and now we might
see more Country Codes, this time 3-letter country codes, used and run
as gTLDs - hence falling under the remit of the GNSO = more US-based
legislation and less legislation that happens in the country itself.
This, to me, smells like a concentration of more power within ICANN's
walls, when if we insisted on keeping CCs (2 & 3 letters) in ccNSO
hands, wouldn't it do the opposite?
Kindest regards,
Olivier
On 23/09/2015 14:08, McTim wrote:
> +1 to Karl and John.
>
> Potential user confusion is not something I am concerned about as much
> as censorship and giving governments more sway inside ICANN. The GAC
> has already won far too many concessions OUTSIDE the GNSO policy
> arena, we shouldn't give them any more for minor reasons.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com
> <mailto:karl at cavebear.com>> wrote:
>
> On 09/22/2015 12:39 PM, John Levine wrote:
>
> Every geographical area that's eligible for a country code has
> a two
> letter country code, and lots of existing software has special
> cases to
> treat two letter TLDs differently. (Yes, we know about the IDNs.)
> There are plenty of two letter codes left, they're not going
> to run out.
>
>
> I can think of no reason to reserve the remaining 3 letter
> country codes
> other than as a makework project for bureaucrats with too
> little to do.
> Surely we have enough of those already.
>
>
> I fully agree with John Levine on this.
>
> --karl--
>
>
>
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