<html> <head> </head> <body> Dear Doug, Experience shown (with EU representatives being present on the list) that "EU" was not considered by the <a href="mailto:ietf-languages@alvestrand.no">ietf-languages@alvestrand.no</a> supposed reviewer of the IANA Language Subtags and Extension Registries as part of ISO 3166 codes and therefore the leading economic language "en-EU" could not be documented along with the IANA registry. The implications of your kind of points IANA/ISO respective weight and importance and the resulting implications on the DNS root(s) and IDNs are key questions right now in Athens. I understand that you are here. May I suggest we try to spot one another and quickly discuss this. jfc At 20:45 31/10/2006, Doug Barton wrote: >Randy Bush wrote: > >> Now I know that you THINK you want it, because you want to make a case > >> for preserving YOUR ccTLD. But you really don't want to open that can > >> of worms. > > > > your mail system seems broken. it has regurgitated an old mail. one > > pre the issuance of EU > >As Kim pointed out, EU is "in the list" as exceptionally reserved, >just like UK and AC. If you'd like to have a discussion about not >including any exceptionally reserved names in the root, the ccNSO >and/or the ccNSO-IANA working group are probably the best forums for >that. If you choose to have that discussion, it's probably worth >noting that it is not uncommon for names to move from "exceptionally >reserved" status to "officially assigned" status, as has happened over >the last two years for GG, IM, and JE. Sure it would be nice if the >world was simple, but it's not. > >On the other hand, SU has specifically been deleted by ISO, hence the >ccTLD needs to be deleted as well (just like ZR was back in the day). >For that matter, TP is way overdue for being deleted, as the TL domain >has been up and running for a long time now. I think we can cut YU >some slack until the ME and SE domains are up and running, but then >that one needs to go too. > >My point is, we actually do have a policy here, and the SU operators >are running their operation with deliberate disregard for it. If you >don't like the policy, there are places to debate it, however since >this isn't one of them, I think I'll leave it at that. > >Doug > >-- > If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough <img src="http://i.msgtag.com/ammssnqc/Fnm/vb/wn/Eweuligmm/lFzv/xu/ts.gif" alt=" " border="0" id="MSGTAGImage"/></body> </html>