Is ICANN promoting a use of alternate sources?

["Elisabeth Porteneuve" <elisabeth.porteneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good morning,

cf. 
http://www.icann.org/translations/draft-translation-programme-v2.2-13feb08-en_EN.pdf 
(and FR)
On fundamentals: on page 13 there are references to important ISO standards, 
and instead of authoritative ISO 3166/MA documents, your quote some free 
websites. That is lack of professional approach. Does ICANN consider than 
taking a copy of A-root-server from an alternate root provider is as good as 
taking it from the authoritative IANA source? It is precisely what you are 
doing with regard to ISO authoritative source. Please note ICANN is one of 
10 voting members of ISO 3166/MA, its knowledge of ISO 3166 is not second 
hand.
The authoritative ISO 3166-1 decoding table is at 
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso-3166-1_decoding_table
The start of ISO's focal point for country codes is at 
http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm
The authoritative ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 tables are provided by the US 
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
On quality: your document has been just released, brand new, and already 
broken links, page 10, http://www.commonsenseadvisory.org does not work. Yet 
another non authoritative source?
Best regards,
Elisabeth Porteneuve