[84881] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Sep 27 17:52:49 2005
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:46:09 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0509272140080.26672@parapet.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:42:22PM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
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> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, James R. Cutler wrote:
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> > Peter,
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> > I must have missed something here.
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> > Are there not individual root domains for each ISO-registered
> > country, not just the US? And, if there are individual root domains
> > for each ISO-registered country, are they all controlled by the US?
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> I'm not up on this exactly, but my reading of the NRIC report says that
> some ISO document has all the 'official' (for ISO I suppose atleast) 2
> letter abbreviations for country codes. These end up in the ccTLD list,
> and then in the root servers delegated to the proper ccTLD auth servers
> for that 2 letter code.
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> The ISO list isn't a US owned thing at last I recall...
ISO 3166 is what you want.
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1-semic.txt
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