Re: Is ICANN promoting a use of alternate sources?

["Frank Ellermann" <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote:

> Please note ICANN is one of 10 voting members of ISO 3166/MA, its
> knowledge of ISO 3166 is not second hand.

<http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/iso_3166-1_and_cctlds.htm>

notes that "ICANN (or IANA) have created a few ccTLDs (.ac and .uk)
which are not based on official list of country codes but on the
list of reserved ISO 3166-1 code elements."

It is actually six two-letter TLDs.  Meanwhile .gg, .im, and .je
are ccTLDs, the ISO page has the grandfathered .ac and .uk cases,
and ICANN recently added .eu based on a reserved code element.

Using official links instead of links to easily editable pages
would be good, such pages often attract the attention of editors
wishing to publish their own ideas about [pick] Cyprus, Kosovo,
Macedonia, Palestine, SMOM, Somaliland, Taiwan, Tibet, and so on.

> http://www.commonsenseadvisory.org does not work.

Check out http://www.commonsenseadvisory.com

Regards,

 Frank