Proposed Measures for Letter/Letter Two-Character ASCII Labels to Avoid Confusion with Corresponding Country Codes - Government of Egypt Comments ..

[Manal Ismail <manal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Government of Egypt welcomes the opportunity to comment on the proposed 
measures for Letter/Letter two-character ASCII Labels to avoid confusion with 
corresponding country codes, and appreciates the efforts exerted to come up 
with the measures proposed to mitigate confusion with country codes.



After consultation with Egypt's ccTLD registry operator, we believe the 
proposed measures do not fully address the raised concerns and fall short in 
addressing GAC advice on the topic as per the most recent Helsinki Communique.  
Moreover, we believe the proposed measures would force defensive registrations, 
which we do not feel is an appropriate way forward.



We therefore, reiterate our position, submitted on Mar 25, 2015, and request 
Egypt's Letter/Letter two-character ASCII label, '.eg', not to be used at the 
second level of any gTLD without explicit consent from both the Government and 
the .eg registry operator.



Kind Regards

--Manal


Manal Ismail

Egypt GAC Representative
Executive Director, International Technical Coordination
National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt (NTRA)
Tel: +202 3534 1115
Fax: +202 3534 4155
Email: manal@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:manal@xxxxxxxxxx>