[icann-eu] Re: eu domain and the ISO 36610

[patrick.mayer@gmx.de]

Sergio Baccaglini wrote:

> The ISO list include the .eu extension already.

Not in the official ISO Maintenance Agency (MA) list as of Feb 26, 2001:

   http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/en_listp1.html

Btw, the country code list is not "36610" but ISO 3166-1.

"EU" is reserved (for the European Union) in an _additional_ list of
reserved codes (not on the web, AFAIK), but is _not_ part of the official list that
the ISO-MA recommendation refers to. Discussions on the question wether
reserved codes may be used as country code domains (ccTLDs) are going on since a
while. The last recommendation of the MA

   http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/

is giving these discussions a new direction, AFAICS. Discussions on that
most probably are to be found on the ecdiscuss-mailinglist

   http://www.ec-pop.org/maillist.htm (without archive, AFAICS).

There is an interesting RfC (informal) by John Klensin, "Reflections on the
DNS, RFC 1591, and Categories of Domains" - RfC 3071,

   http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3071.html

dealing with the question of use of ccTLDs and gTLDs.

Kind regards,


Patrick Mayer


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