On 5/12/15 14:11, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
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.
Depending on how we use that field, that may be okay. Freeform makes
comparison and localization difficult. If you want to search for users
in a specific country, for example, you have to deal with issues around
misspellings, alternate alphabets, full versus short form country names,
inclusion of articles, different transliterations, etc. The goal of ISO
country codes was to eliminate this variability.
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.
No, we aren't -- at least, we wouldn't be if we kept up to date with ISO
3166-1. It would be ISO's political statement, and it's identical to the
situation in which people in Kosovo need to pick either "Serbia" or
"Albania" when selecting a ccTLD to register under.
--
Adam Roach
Principal Platform Engineer
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