[174498] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scotland ccTLD? - armchair quarterbacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Wed Sep 17 11:30:17 2014
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:28:52 -0700
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <B571906F-1D11-4D32-BFE0-91DC666608B5@isi.edu>
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well, apropos to point #2, the iso3166/ma includes representatives from
ten agencies, of which a certain 501(c)(3) originally in marina del rey,
now in los angeles, is included.
however, i can't imagine staff offering an opinion of record on the subject.
"ay" for "aye" would work for me.
-e
On 9/17/14 8:03 AM, manning bill wrote:
> 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:
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> 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.
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> See: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm
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> /bill
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> On 16September2014Tuesday, at 18:15, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
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>> On 9/16/2014 18:57, Masataka Ohta wrote:
>>> What will happen to ".uk" if England is left alone?
>>>
>>> Masataka Ohta
>> There are still at least 3 countries left in the UK if Scotland splits.
>>
>> 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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>>
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>> The fact that they are infallible; and,
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>> The fact that they learn from their mistakes.
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