ADMIN: Civility and on-topic, please! (Re: The limit of language codes)

[Christopher Fynn]

There was an interview with someone from ICANN on the BBC World Service 
the other day and according to what he says some people are now getting 
.GB domains.

This was on the BBC's "Digital Planet" program earler in the week which 
should still be available on-line.

  - Chris

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Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:37:12PM +0000,
>  Marion Gunn <mgunn at egt.ie> wrote 
>  a message of 31 lines which said:
> 
>> the illogicality of the IETF stance of supporting the use of code uk
>> for general purposes (in e-mail addresses, etc.)  while deprecating
>> its specific use in language tags,
> 
> It is not the IETF who decided to create the Top-Level Domain ".uk"
> (violating ISO 3166-1), it is IANA (Jon Postel) and it is not the IETF
> which maintains it, it is the IANA (ICANN).
> 
> So, IETF can do nothing about wether or not users can "use of code uk
> for general purposes (in e-mail addresses, etc.)"
>