Re: ISO 3166 namespace administration

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Kevin Brown wrote:

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

No, I just wrote it as part of a message to define some terms at a point
where some list members were getting terminology mixed up. 

> >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.

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