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I also note that Jon Postel wants to see .TV and .TM removed from the root zone, but NSI/NSF prevented that. Perhaps the other RSCs around the world should honor the IANA request.

I'd be particularly interested in knowing the WWTLD's position on this. Do we follow IANA directive and remove .TV, .TM or do we go with NSI polict and leave them there.

First off, let's see what RFC 1591 says about that: 2) Country Codes The IANA is not in the business of deciding what is and what is not a country. The selection of the ISO 3166 list as a basis for country code top-level domain names was made with the knowledge that ISO has a procedure for determining which entities should be and should not be on that list. COMMENT: AFAIK, TV and TM are ISO 3166 codes for Tuvalu and Turkmenistan, respetively and they have full right to be represented in the ccTLD club. According to the RFC 1591, IANA should remove them only if the ISO 3166 committee decides to revoke them from their table. In my personal opinnion, removal of a ccTLD from the root zone will be exception to the RFC 1591 and, as we know fairly well, each exception may become a general rule and lead to some possible future removals. On the other hand, forced change of designated manager of a domain is an operation fully compliant with the RFC 1591. Regards, Beri .-------. | --+-- | Berislav Todorovic, B.Sc.E.E. | E-mail: BERI at etf.bg.ac.yu | /|\ Hostmaster of the YU TLD | |-(-+-)-| School of Electrical Engineering | Phone: (+381-11) 3221-419 | \|/ Bulevar Revolucije 73 | 3370-106 | --+-- | 11000 Belgrade SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA | Fax: (+381-11) 3248-681 `-------' -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Logged at Mon Sep 14 15:26:33 MET DST 1998 ---------