"John R Levine" writes: > They're not assigned, they're not unassigned, they're not reserved, > they're not formerly assigned, they're not anything. > > For about $40 one can buy a copy of ISO 3166-1:2013. It's not clear from > the TOC if it's any more informative.
The rules are in Section 8.1.3: If users need code elements to represent country names not included in this part of ISO 3166, the series of letters AA, QM to QZ, XA to XZ, and ZZ, and the series AAA to AAZ, QMA to QZZ, XAA to XZZ, and ZZA to ZZZ respectively, and the series of numbers 900 to 999 are available. NOTE Users are advised that the above series of codes are not universals, those code elements are not compatible between different entities. I vaguely remember that Ed Lewis is quoting o paraphrasing the same thing in his draft jaap _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop