Re: Sernovitz attack

[avc@netnamesusa.com (Antony Van Couvering)]

At 01:51 PM 10/7/97 -0400, Infobahn Consulting wrote:
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>Curiosity: does Palestine have an ISO designation yet? PA is Panama, PL is
>Poland, PE is Peru, PT is Portugal, PN is Pitcairn. I guess it will have
>to be PS! The only thing left.

There is no ISO-3166 code for Palestine.  Yet.  Ergo no domain.

>
>Also: Africa's newest dictator, Kabila, has renamed Zaire to Congo. So
>what happens to their ISO code? There are no choices left for their
>letters: CO is Colombia, CN is China, CG is the other Congo (I think).

It was changed to CD about a month and a half ago.  All .zr domains were
transferred over, and are now .cd domains.

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>And lastly, moving away from the questions of terrorism (Palestine)
>and democracy (Zaire) to just plain logistics.... When the nations of
>Europa pull together and become Europa in fact as well as in name, we will
>need an ISO of .eu (which *is* available). So what happens to all the
>current competing registries? How do they collapse them into one? Or do
>they linger on through history like the ghostly .su ...? Or do they make
>.uk.eu, .fr.eu, .de.eu out of them?
>
>And when the United Kingdom is dissolved upon its entry into the totality
>of Europa and England, Scotland and Wales sit as independent provinces
>within that federation .... :-)
>
>Lots of changes in the wind, eh?

Changes will either require a revision of the ISO codes or the creation of
new TLDs by another process.  At least that's how it works now.

>
>Bryan Trussler
>(bryan@i-bahn.com)
>
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