Adam Roach <[email protected]> writes: > 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).
The ISO-3166 standard is controversial. It only presents the member states' view. Many organizations have already changed to use regions instead of countries because of this issue. See http://iso3166.github.io/ for some of them. > 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. > > ____ > [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." _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
