[dns-wg] Elimination of 2nd level ccTLD domain names

At 14:12 +0200 on 21 Oct (1098367960), Brad Knowles wrote:
>        The ISO is going to run out of potential two-letter ccTLDs pretty
> soon.  Two letters only give you 676 possible combinations and there are
> already almost 300 countries.

Good point.  I don't think it's the same trade-off, though -- when the
number of countries has about tripled, that will still only use 1/26 of
the three-letter codes. 

> 	At the very least, any policy that prohibits two-letter SLDs (on 
> the basis of potential conflicts with ccTLDs) should acknowledge this 
> future problem.

How about: "At the present rate-of-change of ISO 3166-1, we must solve
the problems mentioned in RFC 1535 at some time in the next six hundred
years"? :)

Tim.

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