On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Adam Roach <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > Of course, glad you understood my point. > 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. > > I agree with that, though you are skirting the question of how big the multilateral group of worldwide entities has to be to satisfy your requirement for universal acceptance. For the sake of comparison, here is what we currently have, compared to the current state of ISO 3166: https://gist.github.com/fwenzel/8848aebe89e349367719 Spellings aside, we're missing the territories created by the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, as well as South Sudan. Looks like retaining ISO 3166 is the lowest common denominator, in which case the reply to OP should be: "They cannot pick where they live because the region is not recognized by the group we choose to take the list from". Case closed. ~F PS: For further entertainment, I *can* become a W3C members if I find myself to be a Kosovan: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/fees _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
