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