RE: Comments on EPP at the Registrars Constituency

[Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin@melbourneit.com.au>]

Also to my knowledge it was never put forward by the Registrars Constituency
at ICANN.
Some things have a habit of occuring top down at ICANN, in response to
advice from groups such as the Government Advisory Committee.

Bruce Tonkin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick H Wesson [mailto:wessorh@ar.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 5:57 AM
> To: paul.mylotte@bt.com
> Cc: ietf-provreg@cafax.se
> Subject: Re: Comments on EPP at the Registrars Constituency
> 
> 
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Within EPP there are no provosions to prevent 2 letter SLD 
> registrations.
> 
> The policy is an ICANN one, see section B of Appendix K of 
> the ICANN TLD
> agreements.
> 
> http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/unsponsored/registry-agmt
-appk-26apr01.htm

-rick


On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 paul.mylotte@bt.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just subscribed to the list, and I have a query.
>
> At the recent ICANN Registrars' constituency meeting
> I understand that there was a proposal to include a
> prohibition on two letter codes at the second level of
> the Domain Name System.
>
> This sounds strange - If EPP does not permit any two
> letter codes at the second level, what will this mean for
> all the reservations of country codes under .info, for
> example?
>
> Can you shed some light on this situation ?
> Does it only apply to ENUM identifiers ?
>
> Thanks,
>
>  Paul
>
>  P. S. Mylotte
>  IP Addressing & Naming
>  BTexact Technologies
>  Adastral Park
>  01473 606333 / + 44 1473 606333
>  paul.mylotte@bt.com
>