Re: [dns-wg] retiring old ccTLDs

[Doug Barton dougb@localhost]

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

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