[174452] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scotland ccTLD?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Waites)
Tue Sep 16 13:31:20 2014
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:31:11 +0100
From: William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 16/09/14 16:26, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> I see also a suggestion, credited to Dave Eastabrook (sp?) of .ab, which
> apparently stands for Alba, which I will assume has historical significance
> (the country name in Scots Gaelic, perhaps?)
It has current significance, as Gaelic is recognised as an official
(albeit minority) language. This is probably a reasonable suggestion.
The irony is that these kinds of infrastructure questions are so far
below the radar of the Scottish Government that I wouldn't be
surprised at all if its operation were outsourced to Nominet...
