Re: [DNSOP] Terminology: country

2015-05-01 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
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 base

Re: [DNSOP] Terminology: country

2015-05-01 Thread Bob Harold
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote: > ... > >> 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 tha

Re: [DNSOP] Terminology: country

2015-05-01 Thread Tony Finch
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.

Re: [DNSOP] Terminology: country

2015-04-30 Thread Edward Lewis
On 4/30/15, 14:18, "Bill Woodcock" wrote: >But we can acknowledge the complexity, and use some word other than >“country” to describe how the Internet uses these codes. Agreeing with Woody, when I started the rathole, that is what I had in mind. I realize that some feel that this is a petty, ni

Re: [DNSOP] Terminology: country

2015-04-30 Thread Bill Woodcock
> On Apr 30, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > > On Apr 30, 2015, at 7:35 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 07:28:21PM +, Edward Lewis wrote: >>> #ccTLD -- A TLD that is allocated to a country. Historically, these >>> #were two-letter TLDs, and were allocated

Re: [DNSOP] Terminology: country

2015-04-30 Thread Suzanne Woolf
On Apr 30, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > On Apr 30, 2015, at 7:35 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 07:28:21PM +, Edward Lewis wrote: >>> #ccTLD -- A TLD that is allocated to a country. Historically, these >>> #were two-letter TLDs, and were allocated to

[DNSOP] Terminology: country

2015-04-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Apr 30, 2015, at 7:35 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 07:28:21PM +, 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-