Re: ISO 3166 namespace administration

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

Hi Michael,

Is this statement incorporated into a draft of yours or is part of an
update for insertion into a existing RFC?

Kevin

At 10:49 +0300 29/12/96, Michael Dillon wrote:
>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.
>
>
>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]
>
>Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
>Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-604-546-3049
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