> The FreeBSD policy skirts the Kosovo issue in exactly the same way as I > proposed earlier: it punts the question as to whether to include it in the > list to ISO. >
It does? That wasn't my reading, it explicitly rejects the naming conventions of ISO 3166 (which has TW as "Taiwan (Province of China)" and otherwise does not require the usage of ISO 3166, at least not at that link. > I don't find anything in there to disagree with. I think it's a good > policy. > > But it doesn't support your argument that we should use a modified version > of ISO3166-1. That is delving quite squarely into, as you put it, "politics > outside of issues clearly tied to the Mozilla mission." I think it's patently absurd (and likely offensive to those directly impacted) to argue that we should require residents of Kosovo to identify themselves as living in Serbia because ISO doesn't yet recognize them as independent. We can and should trust an individual or group to exercise reasonable discretion around additions to the list to reflect the de facto reality of the world. The goal is to enable our community to connect more effectively and support the mission locally. Being rigid here doesn't serve the mission. -- Mike _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
