[ih] Internet should be in private hands (correction of typo)

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Correction,

.UK/.GB carry both 1985-07-24 on the whois (ie not 1987)

el

On 2022-12-07 21:40 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> There is nothing odd here.
> 
> As one of the longer serving ccTLD Managers (.NA, 1991) I recall that
> Postel wanted not to be in the business of deciding what a country is
> or not.
> 
> So, as he wrote in RFC 1591 (April 1994):
> 
>      "The selection of the ISO 3166 list as a basis for country code
>      top-level domain names was made with the knowledge that ISO has a
>      procedure for determining which entities should be and should not be
>      on that list."
> 
> The ISO maintains the International Standard ISO 3166-1:2020(E) "Codes
> for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions".
> 
> I would not delve to much and too deep into who within the ISO develops
> the list, or how, basically the will of the government of the
> country/subdivision concerned how it wants that name to be represented
> filters down.  And as time has shown it seems to work out.
> 
> 
> UK, EU, AC and SU for that matter (and others) are not assigned but what
> is called exceptionally reserved:
> 
>      "Code elements may be reserved, in exceptional cases, for country
>      names which the ISO 3166/MA has decided not to include in the code
>      corresponding to this document, but for which an interchange
>      requirement exists.  Before such code elements are reserved, advice
>      from the relevant authority should be sought."
> 
> JE and GG were for a while exceptionally reserved but are now assigned.
> 
> .UK was one of the first ccTLDs (1987) and I do not remember if it
> existed before UK became exceptionally reserved or afterwards, which
> would be however quite interesting :-)-O
> 
> .GB (with the same WHOIS date as .UK) interestingly is still in the
> root, managed by JANET (which may or may not exist any longer).
> 
> .CH started in 1987
> 
> SW is unassigned.
> 
> 
> Details matter...
> 
> el
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