<div dir="ltr">+1 to Karl and John.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel</div></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Karl Auerbach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karl@cavebear.com" target="_blank">karl@cavebear.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 09/22/2015 12:39 PM, John Levine wrote:<br>
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Every geographical area that's eligible for a country code has a two<br>
letter country code, and lots of existing software has special cases to<br>
treat two letter TLDs differently. (Yes, we know about the IDNs.)<br>
There are plenty of two letter codes left, they're not going to run out.<br>
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I can think of no reason to reserve the remaining 3 letter country codes<br>
other than as a makework project for bureaucrats with too little to do.<br>
Surely we have enough of those already.<br>
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I fully agree with John Levine on this.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
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