two letter domain names and GAC

[Sam Lanfranco]

This issue is one of those areas where the best advice is to simply 
stand back, take a deep breath, and let common sense and wisdom occupy 
the driver's seat. Anything else involves construction a convoluted. 
complex, incomplete, and flawed basis for doing something exceptional, 
and an exceptional that will be fraught with problems with respect to 
rationale, policies, and implementation.

Farzaneh put the case to rest in a short simple sentence: "There is no 
legitimate reason for governments to claim ownership over pronouns and 
other generic two letter domain names."

That ng.com might be confused with com.ng (for a nonosecond) is no more 
a valid reason than arguing that President's Choice food products (in 
Canada) need a name change because someone might think that they are 
recommended by Donald Trump. I might add that Opium perfume and Canoe 
cologne contain neither opium nor canoes, but the names are allowed to 
stand. Words, and even two letter sequences, only have meaning in 
context, and there is no legitimate context for ownership claims here.

To cite a Turkish cityTLD domain name, we should not suffer bullshit.ist 
<https://bullshit.ist/> arguments for arbitrary capture of two letter 
second level domain names.

There is no need for a committee here. ..... full stop.

Sam Lanfranco, NCSG

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