[Chapter-delegates] ISOC SERBIA - new country name

[Desiree Miloshevic]

Hi all,

Yes, Veni is right. It's up to the UN and the ISO-3166 to decide as they 
did last time - when they came up with .cs.
The referendum is complete and MonteNegro is no longer part of Serbia 
and Montenegro (Crna Gora).

.cs - was the old country code Top-Level-Domain for Czechoslovakia, and 
you may recall numerous letters asking ISO-3166 not to re-use an old 
ccTLD code and give it a new country, saying that 10 years in Internet 
times is not enough in between...

More history behind - my concerns expressed at the ICANN public forum in 
Carthage, where I said that it would be best to wait with .CS allocation 
for least for next two years, i.e. to await for the referendum results 
in MonteNegro:
http://www.icann.org/carthage/captioning-forum-30oct03.html

Apparently ICANN has to appoint an expert to seat on the ISO-3166 board.
Not certain if that person has now been appointed?

I've been quite involved with the Serbian local internet community and 
the ccTLD manager, Mrs Marina Tasic on this matter and worked with two 
of the three working groups, that recently published the new registry 
bylaws for .YU or to become .RS. So, there is a lot of progress being made.

I can confirm that the new request for Serbia's ccTLD extension is 
likely to be .rs - which stands for Republika Srbija or Republic of Serbia.

Desiree Miloshevic
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Veni Markovski wrote:
> At 02:44 PM 13.6.2006 '?.'ЪЪ┬Ж  +0200, Patrick Vande Walle wrote:
>> Dear Dr. Mile,
>>
>> This is going to be an interesting case of two countries migrating to
>> new ccTLDs. Is ISOC Serbia in any way involved in the process ?
>>
>> According to IANA, .yu is active and .cs is reserved for Serbia-Montenegro
>> http://www.iana.org/root-whois/cs.htm and
>> http://www.iana.org/root-whois/yu.htm
>>
>> However, ISO has not yet assigned new country codes and considers yu
>> deprecated:
>> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html
>>
>> Do you have any information on what is going to happen next ?
> 
> Patrick,
> I believe that they were waiting to see the 
> results of the referendum in Crna gora. Now there 
> will be two new tlds, I guess .rs and .rm  But 
> it's up to the UN and the ISO-3166 to see what they domains will be
> 
> best,
> veni 
> 
> 
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