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

[Seun Ojedeji]

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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