We are not in the business of deciding what is and what is not a country. Instead, we employ a neutral standard maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency. Our policy is to create new country-code top-level domains when the country or territory is listed on the ISO 3166-1 standard.
The codes we use are two-letter codes from the ISO 3166-1 standard. The selection of the ISO 3166-1 standard as a basis for country-code top-level domain names was made with the knowledge that ISO has a politically neutral procedure for determining which entities should be and should not be listed in the standard.
Hey:I think text should always say “country or territory code” when it says “country code”...Javier Rúa-JovetDear Work Track 5 members,
In advance of the call this coming Wednesday 22 August at 20:00 UTC, the leadership team is sharing revised draft recommendations on 2-character letter-letter combinations in ASCII and country and territory names. These revisions will be discussed on Wednesday’s call. Feedback is encouraged on the mailing list prior to the call.
The following is a summary of the changes since the last version:
- Added summary/introductory text on the first page to provide context and clarify the purpose of the document.
- Removed language about consensus calls for the moment, so that the group can focus of the content of the draft recommendations.
- Clarified in the text of recommendations 1-8 that the recommendations apply to the top level only.
- Removed reference to translations from recommendations 3, 4, and 6 for the moment. Since there is currently a range of views on the issue of translations, the leadership team suggests including a question in the Initial Report about this issue (see final section of the attached document for proposed text). Once the group has reviewed community input, the WT can finalize a recommendation on this issue if there is agreement to do so.
- Revised recommendation 7 to clarify the text following feedback on the mailing list.
- Removed the text “the ICANN community may want to consider. . .” from recommendations 2-8, since there does not appear to be agreement on this language. A recommendation 9 has been added, which focuses only on the scope of work for the PDP.
Kind regards,
Emily
Emily Barabas | Policy Manager
ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Email: emily.barabas@icann.org | Phone: +31 (0)6 84507976
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