Dear colleagues, Representing .SU ccTLD Administration, Foundation for Internet Development is very glad to express support of such essential initiative as Retirement of ccTLDs. We agree it’s important to launch a formal policy development processes to address the lack of policy with respect to ccTLDs retirement. But we believe it's necessary to emphasize that the retirement process should be initiated by Administrator responsible for the ccTLD, at least in the case when the domain is "alive", which means there are registered sub-domains. Because of ccTLD Administrator’s obligations to the Registrars, appropriateness of the domain retirement should be discussed with ccTLD Administrator and initiation of this process should be agreed with ccTLD Administrator. For example, .SU registered about 120 000 second level domain names, which is more than in ccTLDs of some countries. .SU still plays a quite important role in domain area of Russian Federation, but moreover it's a legacy of Soviet and post Soviet DNS infrastructure and part of our national history. We strongly believe that retirement of such ccTLD without agreement with the ccTLD Administration would be a huge mistake and could lead to negative consequences for all DNS infrastructure in the world. -- Best regards, Vadim Mikhaylov, Director of domain .SU development Foundation for Internet Development www.fid.su