.GP, .TM, .TV and .MQ to be Removed ?
Berislav Todorovic BERI at etf.bg.ac.yu
Mon Sep 14 18:15:00 CEST 1998
>> At 04:03 PM 9/14/98 +0200, Jean-Christophe Praud wrote: >> > >> >It seems to problem is more in ISO than in DNS... >> >> I am not sure I agree. The problem seems to be with IANA. Rather that >> figure out what is a country, IANA uses the ISO3661 list. Correct ... also documented in RFC 1591 and repeated so many times by IANA people. >> Problem is,many things on that list are nor countries, so, IANA has >> to figure out what is a country. According to the previous statement, that should not be a problem. Everything that IANA does is a lookup in the ISO 3166 table. >> For example, what happens if somebody >> from Metropolitan France asks Jon Postel for the delegation for >> the .FX TLD. He may say "it's not a country" in which case he >> is deciding what is and what isn't a country or he may grant it >> which would certainly be bogus. I don't think so ... did you try to do it? Or - better said - do you know of any case where IANA refused to delegate a TLD for a legal ISO 3166 country code? If so - would you, please be kind to share that information with us? Regards, Beri .-------. | --+-- | Berislav Todorovic, B.Sc.E.E. | E-mail: BERI at etf.bg.ac.yu | /|\ Hostmaster of the YU TLD | |-(-+-)-| School of Electrical Engineering | Phone: (+381-11) 3221-419 | \|/ Bulevar Revolucije 73 | 3370-106 | --+-- | 11000 Belgrade SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA | Fax: (+381-11) 3248-681 `-------' -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Logged at Tue Sep 15 16:39:52 MET DST 1998 ---------
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