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

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