On 1 May 2015, at 08:31, Patrik Fältström <p...@frobbit.se> wrote: > Also note that there are ccTLDs allocated for codes that are not registered > in ISO3166 (UK, EU etc).
IIUC these two are on the 3166 list as exceptionally reserved codes. > Suggested new text: > > ccTLD -- A TLD that is allocated to distinct economies. Historically, these > were two-letter TLDs, and were allocated to economies using the two letter > code for the economy taken from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard [ISO3166] > although exceptions exists. In recent years, there have been allocations of > TLDs that conform to IDNA2008 ([RFC5890], [RFC5891], [RFC5892], [RFC5893], > and [RFC5894]); these are still treated as ccTLDs for policy purposes. I think it is unwise to use terms like "economies". Some ccTLDs on ISO 3166 are uninhabited and/or have no economy. Mentioning allocation could raise the unwelcome issue of who/what these TLDs get allocated to. This definition may be better: ccTLD -- A two letter string taken from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard [ISO3166] although there are some exceptions. TLDs conforming to IDNA2008 ([RFC5890-4]) have been created for some of these ccTLD and these IDNA2008 strings are treated as ccTLDs for policy purposes. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
