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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Naming
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 10:13:38 +0000
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Eric A. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>All two-letter TLDs are reserved by IANA for use with ccTLDs, although
>there aren't any entries for AA or ZZ in the root file. I can't find the
>specific RFC right now, but I read it in one of the DNS-related RFCs.
Are you thinking of this from RFC 1032?
Countries that wish to be registered as top-level domains are
required to name themselves after the two-letter country code listed
in the international standard ISO-3166. In some cases, however, the
two-letter ISO country code is identical to a state code used by the
U.S. Postal Service. Requests made by countries to use the three-
letter form of country code specified in the ISO-3166 standard will
be considered in such cases so as to prevent possible conflicts and
confusion.
--
Sam Wilson
Network Services Division, Computing Services
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
