On 10/05/15 17:31, Vladimir Krstic wrote:
> Please work this out, investigate why these people have there
> location set like so and fix it.

Thanks to everyone for their input on this. It's clear that none of the
options available to us here is without any problems. So, after
discussions with Mozilla legal, we've decided that we will work towards
standardizing Mozilla's websites on using the GENC list[0].

The GENC list is based on ISO3166 but modified by the US Government for
their purposes. As it so happens, it makes what seem to us like a very
sensible set of changes. Of particular relevance to this thread, it adds
an entry for Kosovo, but it also makes other changes which seem
sensible, such as calling Taiwan "Taiwan".

I will be contacting the relevant responsible people over the next
little while to encourage them to move their sites across to using this
data source. If you know of places where Mozilla is using a list of
countries on a website, please let me know by email.

If you can see some massive objection to this course of action, other
than "it's from the US Government", then please also let me know.
Otherwise, thanks to everyone for their participation in the discussion.

Gerv


[0] https://nsgreg.nga.mil/doc/view?i=2500 is the latest version,
version 3.0 - although unfortunately this website requires a security
exception in all Firefoxes and Chromes due to its cert chaining to the
untrusted DOD root, and also won't work in Nightly or Developer Edition
because their server is officially busted and won't negotiate anything
other than RC4 even though it advertises it. <shrug>
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