Considering Sovereign States and Indigenous Peoples have been ignored by the ICANN CCTLD process, It is important that these major groups are considered in the process. Therefore i would argue that special consideration is given to these groups in a similar manner to CCTLD operators or at least have them open as GTLD's. Karaitiana Taiuru On 22 September 2015 at 19:18, Maureen Hilyard <maureen.hilyard@gmail.com> wrote:
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).
The “Cross Community Working Group for the Use of Country and Territory Names as Top Level Domains” is asking:
1. Should these new 3-letter country/territory codes be reserved ONLY as ccTLDs *OR* should they be open to everyone as gTLDs? (This question refers to 3-letter code IDN ccTLDs and IDN gTLDs as well)
2. What advantages or disadvantages does your answer offer either group (ccTLDs or gTLDs)?
Please return your answers to these two questions to me asap. J
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