Hi, Just a note. We are getting indications that this is just a temporary list, and that once the GNSO IGO/INGO WG submits its report, the list may be revised. Of course that may just be wishful thinking. avri On 19 Sep 2013, at 08:59, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote:
This was a topic discussed by the New TLD Applicant Group and Registry Stakeholder Group who all agree that we need this list from ICANN.
ICANN - Please advise as to when you all can provide the authoritative list that you will hold registries accountable to? Any discretion left to the operators will be a disaster from a compliance perspective and places an unfair and unrealistic burden on the registries.
And if you are asking this, you should also realise that the names of the countries do change over time [1]. The short names do change less then the long names but they do. You might want to ask ICANN how to deal with the changed information that as well.
jaap
[1] See http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/updates_on_iso_3166.htm