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At 04:03 PM 9/14/98 +0200, Jean-Christophe Praud wrote:

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It seems to problem is more in ISO than in DNS...

I am not sure I agree. The problem seems to be with IANA. Rather that figure out what is a country, IANA uses the ISO3661 list.

Correct ... also documented in RFC 1591 and repeated so many times by IANA people.

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Problem is,many things on that list are nor countries, so, IANA has to figure out what is a country.

According to the previous statement, that should not be a problem. Everything that IANA does is a lookup in the ISO 3166 table.

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For example, what happens if somebody from Metropolitan France asks Jon Postel for the delegation for the .FX TLD. He may say "it's not a country" in which case he is deciding what is and what isn't a country or he may grant it which would certainly be bogus.

I don't think so ... did you try to do it? Or - better said - do you know of any case where IANA refused to delegate a TLD for a legal ISO 3166 country code? If so - would you, please be kind to share that information with us? Regards, Beri .-------. | --+-- | Berislav Todorovic, B.Sc.E.E. | E-mail: BERI at etf.bg.ac.yu | /|\ Hostmaster of the YU TLD | |-(-+-)-| School of Electrical Engineering | Phone: (+381-11) 3221-419 | \|/ Bulevar Revolucije 73 | 3370-106 | --+-- | 11000 Belgrade SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA | Fax: (+381-11) 3248-681 `-------' -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Logged at Tue Sep 15 16:39:52 MET DST 1998 ---------