On 1 May 2015, at 12:00, Jim Reid wrote: > On 1 May 2015, at 08:31, Patrik Fältström <p...@frobbit.se> wrote: > >> Also note that there are ccTLDs allocated for codes that are not registered >> in ISO3166 (UK, EU etc). > > IIUC these two are on the 3166 list as exceptionally reserved codes.
Yes, but not REGISTERED, and that difference is something that created more than just a little bit of "excitement" including ISO asking whether ICANN do not understand what a registered code is when .EU was allocated. I.e. ISO 3166/MA had nothing against .EU be allocated. In fact, given .EU was allocated as a ccTLD there was so much more reason to have EU as an exceptionally reserved code in 3166. But not the other way around. >> Suggested new text: >> >> ccTLD -- A TLD that is allocated to distinct economies. Historically, these >> were two-letter TLDs, and were allocated to economies using the two letter >> code for the economy taken from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard [ISO3166] >> although exceptions exists. In recent years, there have been allocations of >> TLDs that conform to IDNA2008 ([RFC5890], [RFC5891], [RFC5892], [RFC5893], >> and [RFC5894]); these are still treated as ccTLDs for policy purposes. > > I think it is unwise to use terms like "economies". Some ccTLDs on ISO 3166 > are uninhabited and/or have no economy. Mentioning allocation could raise the > unwelcome issue of who/what these TLDs get allocated to. That is fine with me. I was just after 1. trying to not use the term "country" and 2. pointing out a recognition that some ccTLDs are allocated with two character codes which are not *registered* in ISO 3166. > This definition may be better: > > ccTLD -- A two letter string taken from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard > [ISO3166] although there are some exceptions. TLDs conforming to IDNA2008 > ([RFC5890-4]) have been created for some of these ccTLD and these IDNA2008 > strings are treated as ccTLDs for policy purposes. Works for me. Patrik
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