On 5/12/15 3:00 PM, Adam Roach wrote:
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.
Then we should just make the "country" field here freeform and be done with it.
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).
We're making a political statement right now by requiring people who live in Kosovo to pick either "Serbia" or "Albania" as a country.
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.
That seems fair. That argument supports not using a country code here at all and just making it a freeform field.
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