Re: .EU and EUPOC - www.eupoc.org

[Stephen Dyer <]

At 19:38 15/02/01 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> At 17:13 15/02/01 +0000, Stephen Dyer wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > The .EU domain name, sought from ICANN by the European Commission, has 
> > been in discussion for over a year now. To date no Charter has been 
> > proposed for the name and Commission representatives have indicated that 
> > policy should come through dialogue with the European Internet Community.
> >
> > In an attempt to move this process on I have produced a draft Charter for 
> > an .EU Policy Oversight Committee which is visible in English, French and 
> > German at www.eupoc.org. I would be most grateful for suggestions for 
> > improvement of this document and also for your support for the principle 
> > of involvement of the wider Internet community in policy matters. There 
> > is a support page on the site.
> Is this being requsted as a ccTLD or as gTLD?  If ccTLD - it breaks the 
> existing model of ccTLDs limited to countries or islands and not 
> representing regions.
A two letter name is a ccTLD.

There were some meetings between the US Dept of Commerce, the EC and ICANN 
in Brussels last year. Then ICANN issued a policy statement which empowered 
the IANA to issue the .EU name even though it is not on the ISO 3166 
List.  http://www.icann.org/minutes/minutes-25sep00.htm details this decision.

The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency is writing to ICANN to make recommendations 
on how it believes the 3166 Country Code list should be used.

Some discussion on this matter takes place on the ecdiscuss@localhost list 
which is worth joining.

Regards

Steve Dyer


> -Hank
>
>
> > I hope an improved version of this Charter will be discussed at the 
> > EC-POP meeting in Brussels on March 1st 2001.
> >
> > Thank you for your attention. Please feel free to contact me directly if 
> > you have specific questions.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Steve Dyer
> > Chairman CentralNic