<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Maureen:<div><br></div><div>1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The ISO alpha-3 codes should be reserved in the same way as the alpha-2 codes, which are exclusively used for ccTLDs.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>The ISO-4217 alpha-3 codes should also be reserved because they represent currencies.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>For instance EUR represents the Euro (€) and definitely should not be used for anything other than official representation of the Euro.</div><div><br></div><div>2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I agree with Evan that there should be a moratorium on any new gTLDs until there has been a thorough evaluation of the existing new gTLD programme.</div><div><br></div><div>In any event the whole issue of the representation of country names will go to the GAC if it is not already there.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Christopher</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 22 Sep 2015, at 09:09, Maureen Hilyard <<a href="mailto:maureen.hilyard@gmail.com">maureen.hilyard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dear At-Large members<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Country codes are traditionally a 2-letter string. The new gTLD process is enabling country and territory codes to be expanded to 3-letters (or even as whole names).</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The “Cross Community Working Group for the Use of Country and Territory Names as Top Level Domains” is asking: <u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1. Should these new 3-letter country/territory codes be reserved ONLY as ccTLDs <u>OR</u> should they be open to everyone as gTLDs? (This question refers to 3-letter code IDN ccTLDs and IDN gTLDs as well)<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2. What advantages or disadvantages does your answer offer either group (ccTLDs or gTLDs)?<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please return your answers to these two questions to me asap. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">J</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For those who would like to contribute to other questions about this topic please refer directly to the workspace <u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/At-Large+Use+of+Country+and+Territory+Names+as+Top-Level+Domains+Workspace" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/alacpolicydev/At-Large+Use+of+Country+and+Territory+Names+as+Top-Level+Domains+Workspace</a> <u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">All comments welcome </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Wingdings">J</span></div></div>
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