On 5/13/15 15:06, Fred Wenzel wrote:
The comparison to other regions that Adam made are not helpful because they tend to not have as wide an acceptance, if any at all.
You're highlighting the exact danger that I'm warning about: creating our own subjective guidelines around how much recognition is "enough" is exactly the kind of evaluation that Mozilla ill-equipped to make.
If we defer to a third party entity, which we probably should, there's a question which. Our choice of ISO 3166 has left many unhappy because it pivots on UN membership. For the same reason, the US government issues the GENC standard which is a superset of ISO 3166.
If we were a US-only project with a US-focused mission, I would agree that FIPS/GENC would make sense.
However, given the worldwide nature of the project, I'd argue that it makes much more sense to use a list determined by a multilateral group of worldwide entities rather than a unilateral declaration published by a single country.
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