A couple of thoughts, not in response to any particular message in this list. The concept of the alpha-3 codes being restricted was introduced, somewhat out of the blue, in the New gTLD implementation. Some of them are pretty recognizable as references to the country/territory, some much less so. A few of them would likely to be pretty desirable 3-letter gTLDs. I could easily live with them being available as gTLDs under the provision that they could not be marketed or used as pseudo country codes (So you could get GEO for the collectors of the now long-gone General Motors car, but not to market as a country-related TLD for Georgia. I have no idea how you could policie or enfoce that, or for that matter, decide how some 3-letter codes could be made available for generic use and some for real country codes. So although I have a problem restricting what could be good codes for g-use when they are unlikely to be used for cc-use, I am not sure it is worth the effort to do it. Alan