Hi, ISO 3166 MA has designated "UK" as "exceptionally reserved". IANA has permitted the use of codes ISO designates as "exceptionally reserved" in ISO-3166 for quite some time (the yellow boxes in the table at http://www.iso.org/iso/iso-3166-1_decoding_table) . Oh, and I'm not with IANA anymore and even if I was, we couldn't really do anything to ccTLDs without them requesting it (but you know that)... Regards, -drc On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:23:52PM +0000, > lconroy <lconroy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote > a message of 23 lines which said: > >> So what the heck is wrong with UK (as in the country code TLD of the >> same name), > > It's true that there is a discrepancy between ISO 3166 and the root of > the DNS. Do not worry, David Conrad, IANA, reads this list and he will > certainly resolve the discrepancy today by renaming the TLD ".uk" to > ".gb". > > _______________________________________________ > IETF mailing list > IETF@xxxxxxxx > http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf