<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First apologies for missing this meeting. I returned from ICANN 63 with a flu and am only now slowly recovering.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looking at these notes I see:<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Nick Wenban-Smith, Nominet: </span></b><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ref e8 I understand Jaap’s point is quite a technical one and hopefully we can resolve this and remove this line</span></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I assume that this is about Recommendation #8 and the remark:</div><div><br class=""></div><div>
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<li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'" class="">Some Work Track members
have stated that an “exceptionally reserved” list does not exist under the ISO
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'" class="">3166 standard, and therefore it is unclear what this provision references. Do you
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</div><div>Let me explain:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div class="">The definition of "exceptional reservations" in the current standard, (ISO 3166-1:2013(E/F)), is in Section 7.5, Reservation of Code Elements:</div><div class=""><div class="page" title="Page 23"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700;"><font color="#ff2b32" class="">7.5.4 Exceptional reserved code elements</font></span></p><p class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: ArialMT;"><font color="#ff2b32" class="">Code elements may be reserved, in exceptional cases, for country names which the ISO 3166/MA has decided not to include in this part of ISO 3166, but for which an interchange requirement exists. Before such code elements are reserved, advice from the relevant authority must be sought. </font></span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="">("this part" is Part 1 of ISO 3166).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Section 7.6 say that a list of reserved code elements is available from the secretariat. In practice, nor all reserved code elements are actually representing country names. One example of that is UN. The secretariat has made the list available on the online browsing platform (OBP) <<a href="https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#search" class="">https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#search</a>>. Use the filter "Other codes->Exceptionally reserved" to find them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">The UN entry reads: <span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);"><i class="">Refers to the United Nations and reserved by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency. </i></span><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Do note that these are pretty informal descriptions and does not use the formal language the ISO 3166-1 code entries use.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For another example, compare the entries in the OBP for the assigned code for SH and the exceptional reserved code TA which both refer to Tristan da Cunha.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, this brought me to my comment that there is not always short nor long name associated with an exceptionally reserved code. The way the AGB 2012 described this is at minimum a bit fuzzy.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div><div><div class="">jaap</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></body></html>