On 5/12/15 12:11, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 5/12/15 12:45 PM, Fred Wenzel wrote:
...
I suggest the following:
- After a few years of deliberation, let's land Kosovo with country code
"xk" in product details. It'll just be in there, no one needs to use
it if
they don't want to. I am still happy to patch and land that 1-liner
patch.
- We can then suggest to the Mozillians in question that they can choose
Kosovo as their country if they so desire, but they are not required to.
This sounds great to me, given the limited information I have here..
We should not be taking actions that make it look like Mozilla is trying
to independently determine what is and what isn't a country.
Delegating this determination to a body like ISO is reasonable and safe,
which is why organizations like IANA rely rather strictly on ISO's
assignments [1]. In particular, we should avoid making political
statements -- no matter how unintentional -- by omitting official codes
(like SS) or including unofficial ones (such as XK).
This means that we should act with reasonable haste to update our own
records whenever ISO issues an update, and we should reproduce the
officially assigned list verbatim. For ease of automation, there is a
subscription service (~US$350/year) provided by ISO for this purpose;
see https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:pub:PUB500001:en
The danger with the proposal above is that adding an unofficial code
sets a precedent that puts Mozilla in the position of having to make
judgement calls if someone were to request that we add X* country codes
for places like Tibet, Northern Cyprus, Chechnya, Catalonia, Kurdistan,
and ISIL. I'm not saying that any of these situations are directly
comparable to Kosovo; merely that each has a set of political
considerations that Mozilla is not in a position to safely evaluate.
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[1] From RFC 1951, section 4: "The IANA is not in the business of
deciding what is and what is not a country. 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."
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