[Chapter-delegates] Invitation: ISOC at ICANN78 reception (really Taiwan)

[Andrew Sullivan]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 05:45:52PM -0600, Luis Martinez wrote:

>3166: 2014 the name was Taiwan later, between 2018 and 2020 it was decided
>that the name (long and short) is Taiwan (Province of China).

And, of course, if ISO changes 3166 again, we will follow the new naming rules.  As I've already tried to point out, that is why we use a standard for this.  

>-hostiliy- as I am starting to read, we should also consider reflecting in
>why we -ISOC- recognize .CAT

I don't understand what you mean about how the Internet Society recognizes ".CAT".  Last I looked, it is a TLD that ICANN decided to put into the root zone, and the Internet Society recognizes the IANA root as the Internet's root zone.  I believe the Internet Society also recognizes ICANN's processes for deciding what goes in the root zone.  There are no non-ASCII ISO country codes, either, but ICANN developed a process for deciding how such "country code IDNs" could be permitted too.  I don't believe the Internet Society has any positions about any of that.  If you go trolling through various Internet archives, I suspect you are likely to come across some of my personal (and in some cases, then-professional) opinions about all these matters.  But those aren't Internet Society positions.

>- Cataluña (Catalonia) and even have a Chapter
>if there is no ISO 3166 recognition of Cataluña.

There is no requirement for a 1:1 relationship between a country and a chapter.  It might be interesting to review the policies at https://www.internetsociety.org/chapters/start/policies/.  Chapters may cover any territory so long as they do not duplicate the same coverage.  So, for instance, where I live there is a Canada Chapter but also a Canada Manitoba Chapter and a Canada Québec Chapter.  The Catalonia Chapter from our point of view is the Spain Catalonia Chapter, which is in keeping with the ISO 3166 sub-region ES-CT.

Best regards,

A

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