[Chapter-delegates] ISOC SERBIA - new country name

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Fred,

for more precision, what is decided in the ICANN framework is who is 
delegated the responsibility to manage the ccTLD, and changes thereafter.

As stated by you and Veni, the two-letter string to identify the ccTLD is 
decided by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency. This one in turn first has to 
have a distinct economy identified by the UN Statistics Division. Both 
entities "larger" and "smaller" than what people usually identify as 
countries may be in that list.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty



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On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Fred Baker wrote:

> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:40:52 -0700
> From: Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com>
> To: Alex Gakuru <way_forward_tech at yahoo.com>
> Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] ISOC SERBIA - new country name
> 
> On Jun 13, 2006, at 7:04 AM, Alex Gakuru wrote:
>> The Southern Sudan government wants to have their own too. A
>> gentleman I met this morning asked for ISOC's help.
>
> Two things: first, that is decided by ICANN, and second, ICANN looks
> at ISO 3166, and specifically the list that one would find the
> codes .fr, .de, .bg, etc in. Note that while we call them "country
> code top level domains", this list is actually not of countries nor
> making any comment on whether they are countries.
>
> We can help them get in touch with the right people. Once there, it
> is between them and the people.
>
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