Re: ISO 3166 namespace administration

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Kevin Brown wrote:

> You have never answered any points adequately,except to rant over and over
> that .ae is delegated to the government, when it was not, and that IANA
> does not care. ( why are you being a lapdog for IANA, where are they to
> answer....

On November the 22nd I posted the following message to this list primarily
to correct a statement I made about ISO 3166 TLD's that Jon Postel of IANA
did not agree with. The following only includes the portions related to 
ISO 3166 TLD's.

-------------repeat message-------------
>From michael@memra.com Sat Dec 28 23:41:59 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 01:21:57 -0800 (PST)
>From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: iahc-discuss@iahc.org
Subject: Perhaps definitions are in order...


After some discussions with Jon Postel I have revised the ISO3166
definition to replace this sentence:

               After the initial delegation they are no
               longer subject to the control of IANA or the international
               Internet community.

It appears that this is more or less folklore. I have a somewhat more
accurate version below and a few typos and other errors corrected.

Perhaps definitions are in order...

TLD - Top Level Domain. This is the righmost suffix found on Internet
      domain names, i.e. .COM, .UK and so on. 

[some stuff snipped]

ISO 3166 TLD - these are the two letter TLD's that are delegated to the
               control of a national organization in each individual 
               country. IANA encourages people within each country to manage 
               these domains independently but does advise and assist the 
               national managers of ISO3166 domains and reserves the right 
               to withdraw the delegation. The name refers to the two character
               ISO 3166 country codes, as used by the Universal Postal Union,
               that form these TLD's.

[some stuff snipped]

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