[Ctn-crosscom] ISO alpha-2 & alpha-3 codes

[Alexander Schubert]

Hello,

yes, that is well known - there could in theory be a ".aa" gTLD for American
Airlines (aa.com) as that is one of the codes that is "public domain" (much
like the IP address space 192.168.X.X).

But please let's not open YET ANOTHER can of worms by introducing a
discussion whether .aa or .zz shouldn't be made available. I think we should
develop an understanding that the ENTIRE 2 letter name space is forbidden
fruits for everyone with an appetite in gTLDs. 

Any other opinion?

Thanks,

Alexander Schubert



-----Original Message-----
From: ctn-crosscom-bounces at icann.org [mailto:ctn-crosscom-bounces at icann.org]
On Behalf Of Jaap Akkerhuis
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2016 6:08 PM
To: ctn-crosscom at icann.org
Subject: [Ctn-crosscom] ISO alpha-2 & alpha-3 codes

All,

A word of caution. In the discussion about ISO codes people mention
alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes. Note that this only means the form of the code
element, it doesn't says a lot about the type of the code.

For alpha-2 codes there are the (1) Official Assigned and (2) Reserved
codes. There are different types of reservation possible but the most
important to note is that "While a code is reserved it will not be used in
the standard to represent a country".

In general, only official assigned codes are used for ccTLDs (although there
are exceptions).

The Glossary on the ISO site
<http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes_glossary.html> gives more details
about the definitions of the types. And of course the standard itself.


It is possible to find out which the various reserved alpha-2 codes are via
the Online Browsing Platform (OBP) ISO <https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#home>
but the list of reserved alpha-3 codes is as far as I know not publicly
available.

Regards,

	jaap
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