.UY believes that the technical questions asked by the GNSO Working Group need to be addressed and answered by the SSAC, two-character strings, consisting of one letter and one digit, or two digits, should unequivocally not ever be permitted in future gTLD application rounds because of the conflict with ccTLD allocation policy and ISO two-character codes (which are external to ICANN), as well as the homographic issues discussed above. -- ---------------------------------------- Mónica Soliño Adminstración del Dominio .UY SErvicio Central de Informática (SECIU) Universidad de la República Colonia 2066, Montevideo 11200, Uruguay Telef. (+598) 2408-3901 FAX (+598) 2401-5843 https://www.nic.uy ----------------------------------------