Hi, The ccTLDs have been modelled on the ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 standard to avoid, as Postel said, IANA having to choose what a country is or is not. ISO is based on purely technical considerations. ICANN is a technical organization but includes public participation for public input, which I do. This humanism on the part of ICANN must remain a constant and ICANN must not act in a dichotomous way. The example of the .SU, which is still working is a good example of this. Tuvalu, .TV, ccTLD that has become a gccTLD according to Google, is a territory that risks disappearing in case of global warming. So according to the ISO, the TV code will no longer exist. But should we delete a code of a country and therefore its past, its history? A few years ago, I had contacted the ISO to activate the JU code for Julia Island, a French island located at the south of Sicily. I didn't get a positive answer as the island Julia was swallowed up by the waters. But wasn't there a past on this island? It seems important to me that ICANN goes beyond purely technical considerations and that it keeps any ccTLD that has already existed. Otherwise its role would be purely technical and nothing would prevent it from being included in the ITU. Regards, Clement -- Dr Clement Genty Meursault (Côte d'Or) - France www.genty.info