[ncdnhc-discuss] UN and .un

[Dave Crocker]

At 10:48 AM 4/30/2002 -0400, James Love wrote:
>I would like the NCC to ask ICANN to reverse policy, and permit the United
>Nations to create a .un top level registry.  This was discussed at the UN
>General Assembly last week.  There is an issue also with the the ISO 3166
>list of country codes, which currently has a claim on *all* 2 letter TLD
>codes.

The delegation of 2-letter TLDs to the ISO 3166 table was done so that IANA 
did not have to make decisions about the nature and specifics of whether an 
entity was a country.

Your suggestion either moves such a political decision over to ICANN or it 
means that some 2-letter TLDs mean one thing and others will mean something 
else.  The first expands the scope of ICANN policy making and the latter 
creates some long-term confusion.

d/


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