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Re: [ICANN-EU] .EU
- To: "Roberto Gaetano" <roberto_gaetano@hotmail.com>
- Subject: Re: [ICANN-EU] .EU
- From: "Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette@medea.wz-berlin.de>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 00:21:50 +0100
- CC: icann-europe@fitug.de
- Comment: This message comes from the icann-europe mailing list.
- In-reply-to: <F167BWpJWoZxqkMJQFT0000299c@hotmail.com>
- Organization: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
- Sender: owner-icann-europe@fitug.de
> If we get into latin vs. anglo-saxon, or abbreviations and acronims, we
> will never end (BTW, has anybody noticed that US for latin countries
> could mean "Union Sovietique"?).
:-))
The ISO code for Europe had been chosen
> long before ICANN came to existence, so .eu is not "negotiable" as
> ccTLD. Moreover, it can only be assigned to the entity identified by
> ISO, which is the European Union, not geographical Europe. It will be
> sensible for the Commission to extend the usage to geographical Europe
> (following public enquiry on the subject), but they are by no means
> obliged to do so.
I think the Commission has vaguely (?) indicated that it is willing to do
so eventually (despite of Andreas' opinion that Switzerland, Norway
etc. should take & accept the blame of being excluded from .EU land :-
))
If this is true, the crucial question would be if they have to wait until all
attractive domain names have been snatched away by the truely
upright Europeans ;-)
jeanette