[db-wg] Recognisition of Kosovo and adding of LIR signup options with Kosovo as well as XK in inet(6)num

  Quoting William Weber via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net>:

> It is not really as the Netherlands and the EU recognise Kosovo as  
> independent country.      By your logic Taiwan/TW should also be not  
> selectable, it however is - and Taiwan is recognised by much less  
> countries ("UN members") than Kosovo.
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  Two letters country codes are ruled by ISO 3166-1 standard.

And, according to ISO 3166x, X* codes are NOT  "country codes".

XK is just a so called "user assigned code", temporary used by just  
few organizations (European Commission and SWIFT), but it's NOT an  
official country code.
Other examples of user assigned codes:
XI, used by UK Government for Northern Ireland,
XU, used by World Intellectual Property Organization for  
"International Union for the Protection of New Varietes of Plants"
XZ, used for installations in international waters 

Looking at EU, the XK code is "a designation without prejudice to  
positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ  
Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence. (with asterisk and  
footnote in written documents, only the first time that Kosovo is  
mentioned)."

   
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Glossary:Country_codes#cite_note-1

Regards

   
   Franco Tauceri
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