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Re: Conflict resolution?

On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Simon Higgs wrote
>At 12:39 AM -0800 11/21/96, Michael Dillon wrote:

>> > rs.internic.net/netinfo/iso3166-countrycodes

  That is the 1994 edition which now (now on the way to become) outdated.

  See below

>> > No Jersey. No Guernsey. Either InterNIC's ISO 3166 information is out
>> > of date (!), or they fall into the first category.  Both TLDs were
>> > created in 1996.

>> So what. They still aren't iTLD's and aren't relevant to this list. If you
>> have a problem with this stuff why not talk to IANA directly.

>For those bears of little brain who keep insisting that there is/was no
>procedure for any new TLDs except "to wait for the IAHC", these new
>TLDs** show that there is an existing, functioning, and active
>procedure to establish new non-ISO 3166 TLDs in ".". The procedure *IS*
>there. Denial is futile.

  One moment.  ISO 3166 has just gone through an update and which is now
at the draft (DIS) stage to make the updated list the official standard.
  
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from http://www.iso.ch/cate/cat.html 
then do a search for number/text "3166"
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ISO/DIS 3166-1
Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
-- Part 1:
Country codes (Revision of ISO 3166:1993) 

Edition: 1 (bilingual) 
Technical committee / subcommittee: TC 46
ICS: 01.140.30

Descriptors: alphabetic codes, coded representation, codes, countries,
nomenclature, numeric codes, organizations for code assignment


Last updated on 1996-11-16 
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  No, I have not seen the draft that is going through finalization.

>**BTW, I have no problem with either of these two TLDs being in the
>root (though I am very suprised Canvey Island and the Isle of Wight
>did't get the same treatment ;^p). They just happen to be convenient
>examples.

  ISO 3166 is full of surprises: the Palestinians don't have their ps/pse
2/3 letters code domain registered -it is only reserved, sez the
secretary of TC46- while the penguins of the South Pole enjoy .aq
(Antarctica).


alex "bear of little brain" khalil