[174502] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scotland ccTLD?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Sep 17 12:13:31 2014
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:10:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Conrad" <drc@virtualized.org>
> Right. Similarly, .SU has been assigned. SU is a bit odd in the sense
> that it was moved to =E2=80=9Ctransitionally reserved=E2=80=9D when the S=
oviet 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 =E2=80=9Ctransitionally
> reserved=E2=80=9D (which the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency says =E2=80=9Cst=
op use ASAP=E2=80=9D)
> to =E2=80=9Cexceptionally reserved=E2=80=9D. 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.
The European Union (holder of .eu) is not a nation-state either, is it?
Cheers,
-- jra
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