Re: [ga] is ICANN or is ICANN not?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kim and all,

  Excellent good management suggestion method here Kim.  As such
and because it is not one which came from either a ICANN staff member
or officer, it is not likely to be taken.

Kim Davies wrote:

> Hi Roberto,
>
> Quoting Roberto Gaetano on Saturday January 27, 2007:
> |
> | This is where we start to disagree. Actually, I should say, this is where I
> | start having doubts. Maybe somebody might not appreciate if the .uk will
> | disappear tomorrow, just because the code in ISO-3166 is GB. I bet that
> | there will be so much international pressure that IANA would only have the
> | choice to reintroduce it.
>
> UK is actually a valid ISO 3166-1 code. It is what is known as an
> "exceptionally reserved code element", which allows it to be used by
> users of the ISO 3166-1 standard.
>
> The only codes that are marked as unusable by the standard, which are
> still in the root zone today, are SU, TP and YU.
>
> | I am not convinced of this. I buy the argument that ICANN (actually IANA)
> | should not decide which is a country. However, to drop instantaneously what
> | was a country until yesterday is a different matter, that does not require
> | the same latitude of decision.
>
> The language from the ISO 3166 MA is that users of ISO-3166 should stop
> using codes for retired countries "ASAP". Time is given for an orderly
> transition, so there is no need to instantaenously drop a domain.
> Instead measures should be taken to decommission the codes usage in a
> reasonable period of time.
>
> Traditionally this has meant freezing the domain so no new registrations
> can be made, and providing a migration path for registrants to the
> relevant new jurisdiction(s).
>
> kim

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