Re: Country Code TLDs

[Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>]

John Palmer wrote:
> 
> >
> > postel@ISI.EDU wrote:
> > >
> > > Dave Morton:
> > >
> > > The country codes from ISO-3166 that are used as top-level domain names
> > > are specifically the two-letter codes.
> > >
> > > The three-letter codes from ISO-3166 will not be used as "official"
> > > country code top-level domain names.
> > >
> > > However, if somehow under the plan for new general purpose
> > > international top-level domains a new three-letter iTLD of "AFG" was
> > > created and the manager of that iTLD established a policy for that
> > > domain limiting use to registering second level names that were somehow
> > > associated with AFGHANISTAN, that would be perfectly ok.
> > >
> > > --jon.
> >
> > I don't think it is okay.  This creates extreme ambiguity in the
> > namespace.  What about the creation of .AFG as a general purpose iTLD?
> > People could tend to associate that with Afghanistan.  Perhaps not, but
> > in the case of .USA, their is little doubt it would be confused with
> > .US.
> >
> > I don't believe that new iTLDs should be permitted which are
> > "substantially identical"(somehow I am not sure that was the right
> > word:-).
> >
> > It seems to me that we will ALL be sorry, maybe not this year, or even
> > this decade.  But, we will ALL be sorry someday, if we allow
> > freewheeling allocation of iTLDs.  iTLDs should be for specific purposes
> > with maybe a .alt(or something) to put anything else in.
> >
> > The iahc should perhaps consider as they move toward new TLD's(if they
> > move toward new TLDs), are you creating TLD's or registries?  Which
> > drives the process.  I and others believe that the TLD creation should
> > drive the process, not the registry creation.
> >
> > Vince Wolodkin
> >
> 
> So much for the open process.
> 
> I thought the IAHC was not going to impose a bunch of petty rules about
> "who will confuse what with what"
> 
> I don't think that its the job of the IAHC to get involved in this
> question any more than it is their job to set technical standards
> for registry database formats.
> 
> John

>From what I can tell, you view the mission of the IAHC as - "To grant
John Palmer a registry as soon as humanly possible."

Of course, I *could* be mistaken:-)

Happy Thanksgiving,

Vince Wolodkin