Tony Finch writes:

 > They are country-code TLDs because they use the country codes from ISO
 > 3166. "Country codes" is the title of part 1 of ISO 3166.
 > http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm
 > 
 > There are also the IDN ccTLDs which do not use country codes but which
 > are allocated based on the ISO 3166 eligibility criteria.

Indeed. And trying to cram both of these different means (and with
that, years of policy discussions, exceptions, mistakes such as AC
etc.) into one definition is doomed to fail.

For the purpose of this document a definition such as Kim Daves
proposed seems to me good enough.

        jaap

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