Jaap, Good point. My recommendation is to have a set of versioned authoritative lists (e.g. ReservedNames-1.0.xml, ReservedName-1.1.xml, ReservedNames-2.0.xml) of reserved names and associated meta-data, available in a single place (e.g. http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registries/reserved), in a single consistent machine readable form (e.g. XML), based on what is defined in Specification 5 of the Registry Agreement. Any changes to country names or any other dependent source would result in a new version of the authoritative list that is published to the site for use by the registries. -- JG James Gould Principal Software Engineer jgould@verisign.com 703-948-3271 (Office) 12061 Bluemont Way Reston, VA 20190 VerisignInc.com On 9/19/13 8:59 AM, "Jaap Akkerhuis" <jaap@NLnetLabs.nl> 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.ht m