hilali Aziz ha scritto:

*Dear all,*

***We received a forwarded message written by Vittorio Bertola and forwarded by Nick Ashton Hart on 09- 02 – 2007, in which we learn that the author of this mail would like to see us give our support to a recently formulated application to attribute the **.eh ccTLD** to Western Sahara. *

Actually, I was not asking for "support". What I would like is the application to be evaluated as far as possible on a non-political basis. ICANN has always adopted the approach that if a geographical entity is in the ISO 3166-1 list, then it deserves a ccTLD as long as someone is willing to run it; this does not imply any statement on whether that entity is or is not a country, or about the legitimacy of its political situation. To explain, my summarization of the political issue comes from the online neutral source for excellence, Wikipedia, and other websites. For example:

*To claim that the Western Sahara is one of the last colonies in the world, just like the Cayman islands, is an utter fallacy;

I took this from an United Nations document reported here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_list_of_Non-Self-Governing_Terri... However, the point here is not to debate on whether Morocco's or Polisario's claims are legitimate, and I am sure that, as I noted, there are different interpretations of the matter. I just wanted to provide a quick recap for readers, without making a political statement. I am happy to hear from the Moroccan side of the dispute, of course, and I would also be happy to hear from the Polisario side; the "local Internet community" includes both. But I would avoid to get us involved into the political dispute in itself. -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------