At 14:12 +0200 on 21 Oct (1098367960), Brad Knowles 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.
Good point. I don't think it's the same trade-off, though -- when the number of countries has about tripled, that will still only use 1/26 of the three-letter codes.
At the very least, any policy that prohibits two-letter SLDs (on the basis of potential conflicts with ccTLDs) should acknowledge this future problem.
How about: "At the present rate-of-change of ISO 3166-1, we must solve the problems mentioned in RFC 1535 at some time in the next six hundred years"? :) Tim. -- Tim Deegan <tjd@phlegethon.org> As far back as I can remember, soccer for me has been linked with the absence of purpose and the vanity of all things. [ Umberto Eco, "Faith in Fakes" ]