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.

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On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Karl Auerbach <karl@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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