[174494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scotland ccTLD?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Wed Sep 17 10:26:44 2014
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From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140917121818.GA7300@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:26:31 -0700
To: David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Hi,
On Sep 17, 2014, at 5:18 AM, David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> =
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 09:26:24AM -0700, David Conrad wrote:
>=20
>> SU is the Soviet Union, now classified as ?exceptionally reserved? =
which IANA treats as available for assignment (other exceptionally =
reserved codes are EU, UK, and AC)...
>=20
> Do you not mean *un*available for assignment?
Apologies for the ambiguity. IANA treats the =93exceptionally reserved=94 =
category as available for assignment as a CCTLD and a number of =
exceptionally reserved ISO-3166-2 codes have been assigned (including =
SU, AC, EU, etc).
> They're not going to go
> assigning .eu or .uk to anyone because they're already assigned and in
> use. .ac is too, although it's rather less important.
Right. Similarly, .SU has been assigned. SU is a bit odd in the sense =
that it was moved to =93transitionally reserved=94 when the Soviet Union =
broke up and a batch of new country codes were created (e.g., RU, UA, =
etc.) and then, in 2007 (or so) it was moved from =93transitionally =
reserved=94 (which the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency says =93stop use =
ASAP=94) to =93exceptionally reserved=94. The .SU ccTLD is also a bit =
odd in that it is the only code that does not (officially) have a =
nation-state (and hence a legal framework) behind it. In practice, I =
believe it falls under the Russian legal framework.
Regards,
-drc
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