--On Wednesday, 20 February, 2008 16:30 -0800 David Conrad
<drc(_at_)virtualized(_dot_)org> wrote:
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.
David,
FWIW, this is a fairly radical re-interpretation of the policies
IANA followed under RFC 1591 and even of any policy I'm aware of
the ICANN Board having approved. You will also note that
particular --and very liberal-- interpretation of the meaning of
"exceptionally reserved" is of fairly recent origin.
This may, of course, not have anything to do with anything of
importance (rather than of theoretical interest only), but I
have a bias against both misunderstandings of history and
rewriting history to suit more contemporary convenience.
john
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