On Apr 30, 2015, at 7:35 AM, Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 07:28:21PM +0000, Edward Lewis wrote: >> #ccTLD -- A TLD that is allocated to a country. Historically, these >> #were two-letter TLDs, and were allocated to countries using the two- >> #letter code from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard [ISO3166]. In >> #recent years, there have been allocations of TLDs that conform to >> #IDNA2008 ([RFC5890], [RFC5891], [RFC5892], [RFC5893], and [RFC5894]); >> #these are still treated as ccTLDs for policy purposes. >> >> "Country" is a loaded term. I don't have a better suggestion in mind but >> there are many instances where a ccTLD is a territory, etc. I don't mean >> to open a rathole, just point this out. > > If we changed this to say, "A TLD that is allocated using the UN > country list using the the two-letter code from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 > standard [ISO3166]," would that address your concern?
I would be fine with that wording, but it doesn't hint at what "cc" stands for. Again, Jon Postel used the word "country code" and "country this" and "country that" quite liberally in RFC 1591. I'm not convinced we need to step away from that now. On Apr 30, 2015, at 7:40 AM, George Michaelson <g...@algebras.org> wrote: > economy and economycode is a useful concept sometimes. it avoids the CN/TW > issue. and encompasses HK. ISO 3166 is based on countries, not economies. If it were the latter, "CA" would be given to "California". > state or territory can be useful. covers some of the intermediate things. eg > much of the CIS is a 'transitional state' according to the UN. In UN circles, both of those terms have been more loaded than "country" for at least 40 years. (And we're not just talking the Middle East, as older folks in .tw can attest.) > iso-3166 encompasses non-state entities, AP is reserved for the african > fisheries forum. Every SDO has assignments like this. 'Twas ever thus. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
