Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: .EU

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

At 14:26 30/09/00, you wrote:
>Anyway, there was some kind of discussion on how to name a European
>Union-TLD. EUR was also discussed but dismissed because the EU bureaucracy 
>wants
>to establish .eu under ccTLD-regime and that, by tradition, requires
>two-letter codes (guess why they want to have a ccTLD - just have a look 
>at GAC's
>statement with regard to the final authority over ccTLDs). .ue was also
>proposed (Union d'Europe/Unione Europea, if I recall it right). The
>representatives of "roman" (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese) 
>countries claimed to
>have more native speakers on their side who say "UE" than the English/German
>part has for "EU"... Germans would have been best off anyway because we may
>say "Europäische Union" as well as "Union von Europa" (just in case it would
>have happened ;-)

Would you have text references documenting such a discussion.
The documents I went through concerne the study and the call for
comments concerning the ".eu" ccTLD management.
Thx.
Jefsey