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0 pointsWorldMaker1y ago0 comments

The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency makes the changes to ISO 3166. They follow notifications from and include members from these other bodies:

    Association française de normalisation (AFNOR), France
    American National Standards Institute (ANSI), United States
    British Standards Institution (BSI), United Kingdom
    Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), Germany
    Institut Marocain de Normalisation (IMANOR)
    Iran National Standards Organization (INSO)
    Standards Australia (SA)
    Standards Council of Canada (SCC)
    Swedish Standards Institute (SIS)
    International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
    International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
    International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
    Universal Postal Union (UPU)
    United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html

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amiga3861y ago

You're right these agencies make changes... but they don't decide if a country gets a ccTLD or not. They take their cue from the UN's Country Names bulletin, which in turn requires the country to be member state of the UN, or a member of one of its agencies, or a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Criteria_for_inclus...

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