On 5/22/15 17:09, Mike Connor wrote:
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.
The policy, as far as I can tell, is for application to things like this:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/share/misc/iso3166
And this:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/etc/regdomain.xml
Neither of which have entries for Kosovo.
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.
But what's the criteria for allowing this inclusion? Mike Connor's
personal opinion? If I requested an entry for "The Republic of Texas,"
what would be the grounds for accepting or rejecting it?
The problem here isn't Kosovo per se; it's the precedent. If we accept
new entries, then we need to define formal criteria for what rises to
the level of being acceptable, and what does not -- the only other
alternative is to use a subjective and possibly contentious evaluation
for each request. Both paths lead us to being forced into politically
dicey positions in the future.
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Adam Roach
Principal Platform Engineer
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