<p dir="ltr">Adding my own 2c worth to this conversation I would agree with Seun's recommendations</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 23/09/2015 5:19 am, "Seun Ojedeji" <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Olivier, all<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div><div>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<br><br></div><div>Regards<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ocl@gih.com" target="_blank">ocl@gih.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hello Tim & all,<br>
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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?<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<div><div><br>
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<div>On 23/09/2015 14:08, McTim wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">+1 to Karl and John.
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<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>
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McTim<br>
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it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel</div>
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<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>
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<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>On 09/22/2015 12:39 PM, John Levine wrote:<br>
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<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">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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<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">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><font color="#888888"><br>
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