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Re: [DNSOP] Tell me about the ISO 3166 user assigned two-letter codes and TLDs

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 29 September 2016 02:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Tell me about the ISO 3166 user assigned two-letter codes and TLDs
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>No.  Just because countries don't get assigned these values it
>doesn't mean that they can't be assigned by ICANN or the IETF in
>consultation with ICANN.

I don't see how that follows.  For over 30 years, the rule has been
that two-letter names are reserved for ccTLDs.  There's never been any
hint in any RFC I have found that any two-letter names can be assigned
in any other way.

>And who *needs* a fake tld?

Nobody.  We could use HOSTS.TXT.

R's,
John

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