[At-Large] At-Large Use of Country and Territory Names as Top Level Domains

[Maureen Hilyard]

Adding my own 2c worth to this conversation I would agree with Seun's
recommendations
On 23/09/2015 5:19 am, "Seun Ojedeji" <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Olivier, all
>
> I understand the sentiments and I somewhat agree with you on the fact the
> there is need for some form of "power" distribution. I will personally say
> apart from power, orderliness and structure is another aspect we may be
> loosing once the 3 letter is opened up in the manner proposed. This was
> actually why I added a +1 to John as i read his mail to mean "let the the 3
> letters be open to all" and maintain the 2 letters to ccTLDs".  I don't
> know of any instance where a country(new) could not get alpha-2 codes. The
> alpha-2 is closer to the work of IANA as its what is also used within the
> IETF within IETF as well.
>
> That said, there is also merit in reserving the corresponding alpha-3
> letter of each country and then opening up to the Gs. The advantage in that
> is that some level of consistency will be ensured so the registry managing
> for instance .ng will also manage .ngr
>
> Regards
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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> 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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