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Re: Scotland ccTLD? - armchair quarterbacking

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Wed Sep 17 11:48:47 2014

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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:48:27 -0700
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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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:
> 
> 1_  Scotland has no say in the country code selected.

This is not actually true. We have prior art on countries not liking the
code they were assigned, and successfully lobbying for it to be changed.
This is one of the entanglements that I referred to previously. :)

Doug


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