At 2:24 PM +0200 2004-10-21, Piet Beertema wrote:
The ISO is going to run out of potential two-letter ccTLDs pretty soon. Two letters only give you 676 possible combinations and there are already almost 300 countries.
Which means the number of countries could more than double before ISO would start running into troubles.
Uh, no. Re-read that message again. I'm talking about clustering of names around certain common sequences of characters. Unless you want to hand out the ccTLDs in a totally random fashion, they will start running into collision problems much sooner than that. Most hashing algorithms start having problems when they get close to 50% full. There's no difference here. -- Brad Knowles, <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.