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[Jonah Aragon <jonaharagon AT gmail.com>]

The RFC you linked states "There are a set of what are called "top-level domain names" (TLDs). These are the generic TLDs (EDU, COM, NET, ORG, GOV, MIL, and INT), and the two letter country codes from ISO-3166."

It's my understanding that it's like how all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares: All ISO-3166 2 letter codes are 2 letter TLDs, but all 2 letter TLDs don't necessarily have to be listed in the ISO-3166 specification, and they don't necessarily have to be ccTLDs. ICANN may be limiting gTLD registrations to 3 letters and above on the *off-chance* a new country code is created, but I don't believe IETF or OpenNIC has any prohibitions on their creation outside of country-code usage, and I don't think my proposal has to be changed at this time.

Perhaps OpenNIC needs a policy change if you really think it's an issue?

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 8:57 PM Tim Groeneveld <tim AT timg.ws> wrote:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1591

---- On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:20:58 +1100 jonaharagon AT gmail.com wrote ----

Could you try to find that RFC? The only specification I could find mentioned that all ISO 3166-1 codes were to be used as ccTLDs, but I couldn't find anything specifically stating all 2 letter domains were reserved for ccTLDs, regardless of whether or not they a part of that standard. 

Additionally, OpenNIC has the .oz domain currently in-use, and seems to peer with New Nations which primarily uses two letter TLDs. As far as I can tell there's no OpenNIC policy prohibiting TLDs like these, since they don't interfere with any domain on ICANN's root DNS servers. 

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 7:53 PM Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 AT gmail.com> wrote:

The concept seems good, but the name needs to be changed.  ISO-3166
provides the list of country codes and the only requirement on country
codes is that they are two letters.  As I understand it, IETF reserved
all two-letter TLDs as ccTLDs before ICANN ever existed, but I do not
know in which RFC this was declared off the top of my head.

We should not add two-letter TLDs.

Jonah Aragon wrote:
> I would like to start a proposal for a .on TLD on the OpenNIC network:
>
> ========
> CHARTER
> ========
>
> The .on TLD, operated by the dotON administration, is to be used by
> commercial and non-commercial entities (individual or groups) to
> promote themselves on the OpenNIC free network. This domain is
> intended to be used in a general sense, akin to .com in the ICANN
> network, and as such has a very general use case and little
> restrictions on registration.
>
> Use of this TLD is not a given right to any holder, and domain names
> may be revoked by the dotON administration team or by a vote of domain
> holders (henceforth known as "Members"), especially pertaining to
> violations of our policies (see Section 2).
>
> "Members" in this charter refers to owners of .on domains and not
> OpenNIC members unless otherwise noted.
>
> 1. REGISTRATION
> ----------------------------
>
> .on domains will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Some
> domains have been reserved for administrative use (see Section 6)
> prior to public registration.
>
> Registrations immediately after approval will be handled manually via
> email. An automated registration system is in development and will be
> available at register.on when it becomes available. Registrations will
> be available from 3 month to 2 year periods. All registrations will be
> available for free after approval, however, the dotON administration
> holds the right to raise prices as needed to cover operating costs.
>
> 2. ABUSE
> ---------------
>
> dotON will not tolerate the following behavior, and use of our domains
> for any of the following is grounds for termination (see Section 3):
>
>  - Domain squatting
>  - Spam email delivery
>  - Malware distribution
>  - Malicious interference with computer systems
>
> Our abuse policies are in line with OpenNIC's abuse policies as well
> (http://wiki.opennicproject.org/TLDPolicy - "Obnoxious Activity: Spam
> & Cracking"), and any policies listed there apply to .on domains as
> well. dotON is not a domain police force and meaningful abuse
> enforcement will be reliant on members reporting. All abusive behavior
> should be immediately reported to abuse AT register.on
> <mailto:abuse AT register.on> so administration can take action.
>
> 3. TERMINATION / REVOCATION
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Domains can be immediately terminated if they are found to be in
> violation of our policies by the dotON administration, and a notice
> will be sent to the registrant of the offending domain. Domains can
> also be terminated via a member vote. Membership is granted to any
> domain holder, 1 vote per member regardless of the amount
> registrations they hold. Member votes are subject to policies as
> listed in Section 4.
>
> Domains may also be revoked by the dotON administration if the OpenNIC
> membership at large moves to revoke a registration. We do not foresee
> a circumstance where OpenNIC as a whole will be required to vote on
> the revocation of a .on domain, but if the need arises we will comply
> with any such vote.
>
> 4. VOTING
> ----------------
>
> All matters of administrative importance will be voted upon by members
> of the dotON domain registry. Motions will be passed by a simple
> majority of votes (50% + 1). The dotON administration holds the right
> to veto any member votes, in order to retain control of .on operation.
>
> 5. DISPUTES
> --------------------
>
> Trademark holders should email trademarks AT register.on
> <mailto:trademarks AT register.on> if they wish to dispute a domain.
> dotON will revoke or transfer registrations if ordered by a legitimate
> court of law, as a courtesy to that country, as applicable to
> OpenNIC's dispute policy.
>
> 6. RESERVED DOMAINS
> -------------------------------------
>
> The following domains are reserved by the dotON administration and
> will never be available for public registration:
>
>  - register.on - Primary .on registration website
>  - www.on <http://www.on> - Redirects to register.on
>  - nic.on - Redirects to register.on
>  - dot.on - dotON administration, presently redirects to register.on
>  - search.on - Will be hosting an OpenNIC-wide search engine
>  - opennic.on - Reserved
>
> 7. AMENDMENTS AND MISC. POLICIES
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Amendments to this charter may be added by a vote of .on members.
> Additionally, the dotON administration is permitted to provide a
> binding user agreement for registrations at register.on that may
> include policies outside the scope of this charter.
>
> 8. FUTURE
> ----------------
>
> dotON is committed to the future of the OpenNIC network and will
> attempt to provide, in addition to the .on Tier 1 server, Tier 2 DNS
> servers to support the OpenNIC infrastructure, a search engine for the
> network, email services, SSL services (under a self-hosted root CA).
> These services have no deadline for completion at the moment. We also
> wish to help in spreading the word about OpenNIC via self promotion
> and joining the Public Relations Working Group
> http://wiki.opennicproject.org/PublicRelationsWG.
>
> 9. CONTACTS
> --------------------
>
>  - dotON Administration: admins AT dot.on
> <mailto:admins AT dot.on> (hostmaster AT opennic.on
> <mailto:hostmaster AT opennic.on> forwards here)
>  - Abuse Reporting: abuse AT register.on
> <mailto:abuse AT register.on> (abuse AT opennic.on
> <mailto:abuse AT opennic.on> forwards here)
>  - Webmaster: jonah AT dot.on <mailto:jonah AT dot.on> (webmaster AT dot.on
> <mailto:webmaster AT dot.on>, webmaster AT opennic.on
> <mailto:webmaster AT opennic.on> forwards here)
>
> ====
>
> Thanks for reading through this proposal, we are open to suggestions
> for any changes.
>
> Jonah Aragon
> IRC: jonaharagon on #opennic
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