On Saturday, May 02, 1998 9:30 PM, William X. Walsh[SMTP:william at TJNS.TJ] wrote: <snip> @ @The British Virgin Islands have their OWN 2 letter code, separate and @unique from the US Virgin Islands code. @ It makes no sense to carve up country code TLDs along hard and fast political boundaries. Those boundaries can change and people will want to continue to use their domain names. Stability of domain names is one of the arguments the ITU/ISOC/IAHC/POC/PAB/CORE use to justify their plan. How can they do that when the IANA (Jon Postel) plan for country codes does not support that ? Also, what is the purpose of having country codes if people ignore the boundaries ? @@@ http://www.zbvi.vi "ZBVI is the principal commercial and only "AM" radio station in the British Virgin Islands." @@@@@@@@@@@ Again...just so people are clear...I suggest that a TLD like .VI should cover the "region" known as the Virgin Islands and I also suggest that the stakeholders be the ones that determine the future of the TLD, not the IANA (Jon Poste). The stakeholders are the <SLD>.VI owners, in my opinion. - Jim Fleming Unir Corporation IBC, Tortola, BVI http://vi.caribnic.net -------- Logged at Sun May 3 16:44:52 MET DST 1998 ---------