Re: About .eu - Was: Re: [ga] Meeting on the creation of .EU TLD

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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On 20-Mar-2000 John Charles Broomfield wrote:
> I may be wrong, but I believe that Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Mann (.je,
> .gg & .im respectively) are not in ISO-3166-1 but actually in the reserved
> list. 243 ccTLDs according to the list at IANA. 239 codes in ISO-3166-1 (and
> some of them not delegated (Western Sahara for example ".eh").
> Reserved list delegation is not the case for the majority of ccTLDs, but it
> wouldn't be the only case either.

It is possible.  However, I do seem to remember that Jersey and Guernsey were
listed on the ISO-3166-1 at one point.  I certainly wish there was a better
source than the ISO on this, because their publication rules are stringent, and
make it hard to document changes in this document.  A revision history would
sure be handy right now.

Is it possible that they were removed from the list?  To my knowledge, IANA has
never removed a ccTLD for being removed from the ISO-3166-1 list, so please
educate me if this is not the case.

In otherwords, I am asking if it is possible that those codes occured on a
prior revision of the ISO-3166-1, delegated as ccTLDs, and then later moved to
the reserved list instead.   This is pure speculation, however.  I certainly
wish there was a more open standard in use than the ISO for these issues.

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