[174497] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scotland ccTLD? - armchair quarterbacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (manning bill)
Wed Sep 17 11:07:32 2014
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From: manning bill <bmanning@isi.edu>
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:03:02 -0700
To: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
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Perhaps a dose of factual information may temper this thread.
If we are talking about ISO-3166-2 - the basis for the CCTLD =
delegations, then:
1_ Scotland has no say in the country code selected.
2_ ICANN has no say in the country code selected.
3_ The choice is up to an ISO committee. =20
See: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm
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On 16September2014Tuesday, at 18:15, Larry Sheldon =
<LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
> On 9/16/2014 18:57, Masataka Ohta wrote:
>> What will happen to ".uk" if England is left alone?
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>> Masataka Ohta
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> There are still at least 3 countries left in the UK if Scotland =
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> The name change is that in that event, Great Britain (.gb
> country-code Reserved Domain - IANA) will refer only to the land mass
> (which it should any way, but if often used to refer to the three
> kingdoms on it.
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