Let me make some pedantic remarks about the terms used in this discussion. Joe Abley writes:
> 1. Certain ISO-3166-2 codepoints are designated as being for private > use by ISO and will not be assigned for use by countries, economies, etc; What you mean here is the ISO 3166 Part 1 (ISO 3166-1 Country codes) and just the "alpha-2" codes (two letters). [Part two from ISO 3166 is about subdivision codes. Subdivision codes in Part 2 consist of alpha-2 country codes, hyphen and one or more characters (as in AU-QLD for Queensland).] > 2. Those ISO-3166-2 codepoints continue to be used for > correspondingly-private applications in a variety of applications > that have nothing to do with the DNS, so the designation from (1) is > recognised and widely used; > > 3. ICANN does not assign two-character labels as TLDs except by > reference to ISO-3166-2; The ISO 3166 term forthese code points is "User Assigned". Regards, jaap _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop