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

[Luis Martinez]

Well they proudly name themselves as Internet Society Catalan Chapter, not
with the Spain reference.

Best Regards,
Luis

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023, 18:24 Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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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