Re: Regional iTLD Question

[shaw <ROBERT.SHAW@ITU.CH>]

Jordi Bruguera & Adria Garcia wrote...

>1) Ask for ISO-3166 update to include .ct as a TLD
>for catalonia. (We have a website with more than
>one thousand supporters --> http://www.domini-ct.org )
>Our local government has approved a resolution to ask
>spanish government to act in consequence.
>

The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency rules laid down in
the MA-Guidelines indicate that a code request can only
be processed if the authority holding sovereignty over
the area for which a code element is requested expresses
its consent to this request. Therefore, agreement of
the Spanish government would seem to be a prerequisite before
the ISO 3166 MA could do anything about it.

>2) Ask for a new iTLD, as .cat (Catalonia) which is
>a half sollution for us because we are a recognized
>nation without own state.
>

If new iTLDs were created then one could imagine that
you and/or others could apply to run such an iTLD.

Robert
IAHC member, expressing personal opinions...