[dns-wg] Re: Elimination of 2nd level ccTLD domain names

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:40:58AM +0200,
 Lasse Jarlskov <lasse at jarlskov.dk> wrote 
 a message of 19 lines which said:

> I always thought that ccTLDs could only be assigned if they are on
> ISO-3166-1. Indeed thats what http://www.icann.org/icp/icp-1.htm
> says.

And before that, RFC 1591. But both these documents do not handle the
case of disappearing countries (see .SU and .YU). Most Internet users
want stable names and therefore would not agree with the disparition
of a domain.
 
> Yet, acording to
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html
> EU is not on that list.

Rules always have exceptions :-)

In Europe, see .AC, .GG, .IM and .JE, which are in the root but were
never in ISO-3166 (I always mention this when people say that things
were better with Jon Postel).