At 12:53 AM 1/19/99 -0500, Antony Van Couvering wrote:
>Actually, IANA did not delegate TLDs to countries (it was IANA's policy not
>>to have any view on whether the ISO codes even corresponded to countries).
>>Rather, they delegated the domains to groups or individuals who resided
>>within the territory described by the ISO code.
Anthony,
The policy was a bit more... interesting than you describe. In effect,
there has been a hierarchy of practises, with the top of the hierarchy
being an explicit statement by the appropriate "authority" associated with
a particular ISO country code entry.
Practises "lower" on the hierarchy have been in place so that Internet
operation did not need to wait for the relevant, associated authority to
get into the decision path. However, the ultimate test has been what IANA
did with an existing delegation, given IANA receipt of a directive from an
associated authority. And, in fact, it has followed that
directive. (Apparent exceptions have had to do with determining whether an
entity was, in fact, duly or sufficiently "authorized".)
d/
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