draft-ietf-dnsind-iana-dns-00.txt (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsind-iana-dns-00.txt) 3.3.2 'Country Code' TLDs in the IN CLASS All two octet length TLDs in the IN class consisting of letters are reserved for assignment to territories. Those (1) allocated by [ISO 3166] and (2) allocated by the Universal Postal Union [UPU] and reserved in [ISO 3166] even though not formally assigned by [ISO 3166] (e.g., a few British Channel Islands), are assigned as so allocated by the generally recognized acting government of the area associated with the "country code" or on a first come first served basis to a designated registry if there is no such government or the government has not exercised control. In addition, due to historical factors and consistent with the normal diplomatic usage of special consideration for founders, the United States of America, as founder of the Internet, is also assigned the three letter TLDs "gov" and "mil". A country code for a territory with a generally recognized acting government should be considered part of the territory of that government. Decisions by said government as to who should control the DNS for that TLD are final and unappealable. ................................................................... Look who wrote this: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd (IBM) Eric Brunner (Nokia) Bill Manning (ISI) ============================================================ Michael Sondow I.C.I.I.U. http://www.iciiu.org Tel. (212)846-7482 Fax: (603)754-8927 ============================================================
