Dear Justine,
On 12/08/2018 10:26, Justine Chew
wrote:
In
other words, if we make ISO 3166-1 Alpha 3 letter codes available,
how should we deal with the Union of the Comoros' then right to
and/or potential desire for (the already delegated) ".com"
gTLD?
Standard conflict that we've seen ever since the beginning of this
discussion in the mid nineties. Yes, this is a problem. One of the
problems is that some people think these days that the DNS is so
tight and that there cannot be exceptions. Such rigidity is the base
for a perfect bureaucracy. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately)
both the DNS and various other aspects of the Internet have their
exceptions. Take ISO3166 & .UK for example. Some bureaucrats
wanted to move the .UK TLD to .GB in the early nineties. They
backtracked soon enough when they found out some of the
repercussions, costs & political implications of the difference
between the United Kingdom for Great Britain & Northern Ireland
vs. Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) itself.
So there could be other exceptions.
Kindest regards,
Olivier