At 03:32 PM 2/24/99 , John Charles Broomfield wrote: >Hi all, > A little while back a few questions were raised on who/why some >ccTLDs had come into existance. >My question to the ISO-3166 maintenance agency: As someone who was responsible for coordinating this across rue Varemb� in Geneva (a very short block with ISO hq is on one side, ITU on the other), let me add that ISO is a non-governmental standards organization whose symbol specifications are supposed to represent places for information systems processing purposes with no attendant implications. This is contrasted with ITU symbols that may be the subject to UN resolutions and treaty instruments. Even at the ITU, however, pragmatic solutions are usually sought with an attendant caveat about no implications. In addition, DNS TLD symbols didn't always religiously follow the ISO standard. During the period that most of those symbols were added at ISO, the decisions were made out of the ISO Director General's office in Geneva.
