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0 pointschrismorgan1y ago0 comments

They could certainly say “we’re giving up on alpha-2 codes, new countries only get alpha-3 codes”. But it’d be rather difficult, as there’s a lot of software using alpha-2 codes. I imagine ISO and ICANN would talk, and maybe ISO 3166/MA would reserve any extant three-letter TLDs, so ICANN say “no new three-letter TLDs except for new countries”. That’d solve the issue entirely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3

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kjs31y ago

Agreed. It's important to bear in mind that DNS is one thing that uses ISO3166, but by no means the only thing.

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