David Conrad wrote: >> Unfortunately IANA introduced EU as a new exception. > ICANN introduced the top-level domain for EU by request > of appropriate entities within the EU. Yes, one of the "exceptionally reserved" codes, added to the AC + UK club of exceptions. That's 5+1-3 exceptions in comparison with the list in RFC 3071 (published 2001). >>> IANA has permitted the use of codes ISO designates as >>> "exceptionally reserved" in ISO-3166 for quite some time >> IANA forgot to update RFC 1591, and ICANN forgot to update >> IDP-1, or are you talking about something else ? > Neither of those documents needs to be updated since IANA > and ICANN are still using ISO-3166. When I ask whois.iana.org for CP, DG, EA, FX, IC, or TA it tells me that there's no such TLD. And the three remaining "exceptionally reserved" codes are AC, EU, and UK. > If you look on the table at the URL I provided for decoding > ISO-3166-1 Thanks, I publish links to English and French versions of the table for six years on <http://purl.net/xyzzy/bookmark.htm>. I need it for <http://purl.net/xyzzy/src/rxwhois.cmd> with a list of anything that remotely could be a TLD down to cases like LOCAL, NATO, FIRM, ARTS, RB, RC, etc. Stopping short before the lala lands of "alternate roots" or the WIPO codes (the violet codes in the table). > "exceptionally reserved" means "Code element may be used but > restrictions may apply". None of the restrictions on those > codes have been violated by their use as TLDs. | The IANA is not in the business of deciding what is and what | is not a country. The selection of the ISO 3166 list as a | basis for country code top-level domain names was made with | the knowledge that ISO has a procedure for determining which | entities should be and should not be on that list. "That list" is not yellow or violet or red or blue fields in the table, it is the green fields. With grey as colour for former green fields, TP is a whois.iana.org example for grey. It took an IETF WG about a year to brain wash me until I got it, when they changed their mind allowing yellow excluding UK I unsubscribed. Frank _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf