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Re: ISO 3166 mandatory?

2008-02-20 17:33:56
Frank,

On Feb 20, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Frank Ellermann wrote:
Unfortunately IANA introduced EU as a new exception.

ICANN introduced the top-level domain for EU by request of appropriate  
entities within the EU.

IANA has permitted the use of codes ISO designates as
"exceptionally reserved" in ISO-3166 for quite some time
IANA forgot to update RFC 1591, and ICANN forgot to update
IDP-1, or are you talking about something else ?

Neither of those documents needs to be updated since IANA and ICANN  
are still using ISO-3166.  If you look on the table at the URL I  
provided for decoding ISO-3166-1, you'll see "exceptionally reserved"  
means "Code element may be used but restrictions may apply".  None of  
the restrictions on those codes have been violated by their use as TLDs.

Regards,
-drc

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