So I wrote the attached draft. I was originally going to include Language Codes but there are significantly more complex and would probably best be handled in a separate document.
Any thoughts on whether I should submit this (keeping in mind that anyone could submit a similar draft at any time...)
Thanks, Donald
PS: My office is moving this Thursday so it may be hard to contact me at "work" that day. After Friday I believe my work phone will be 1-508-786-7554.
============================================================ Donald E. Eastlake 3rd Donald.Eastlake@motorola.com 155 Beaver Street +1 588-851-8280(w) +1 508-634-2066(h) Milford, MA 01757 USA dee3@torque.pothole.com INTERNET-DRAFT Donald E. Eastlake 3rd Motorola Laboratories Expires: February 2004 September 2003
IETF Country Codes ---- ------- ----- <draft-eastlake-ietf-codes-00.txt>
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Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
To protect IETF protocols that use codes similar to ISO Country Codes from the potential burden of royalties and the burdensome uncertainties of the possible arbitrary imposition of and changes in such royalties, IETF Country Codes are hereby adopted.
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Table of Contents
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1. Introduction and Effect
The International Standards Organization has threatened to enforce unspecified royalties for the use of ISO Country Codes. Even if they do not take this step, their action has imposed enormous uncertainty on the users of any protocol based on these codes because such royalties could be imposed at any time. IETF Standards that are currently defined with reference to these codes include the global DNS [RFC 1034, 1035, 1591] and IETF language tags [RFC 3066] and any Standards, IETF or otherwise, that depend on these such as URIs [RFC 2396], HTTP [RFC 2616], and XML [XML].
The approval of this special Best Current Practice document by the IESG shall direct that, in all existing IETF Standards and Best Current Practices, including those approved by the IESG but not yet published, all references to ISO Country Codes shall hereby be interpreted to refer only to IETF Country Codes unless the reference is in the nature of historic or commentary without normative effect.
The IETF warrants that it will never charge royalties for the use of IETF Country Codes and invites other oranizations to make reference to them.
2. Country Codes
The initial table of IETF County Codes is as follows. (It is different from the ISO table of two letter country codes in that it contains additional allocated codes (ac, gg, im, and je) and, because of the IETF dedication to stability and interoperability, it maintains the country code of the United Kingdom as "uk" and that of Serbia and Montenegro (Yugloslavia) as "yu", the codes currently in use.)
ac Ascension Island ad Andorra ae United Arab Emirates af Afghanistan ag Antigua and Barbuda ai Anguilla al Albania am Armenia an Netherlands Antilles ao Angola aq Antarctica ar Argentina as American Samoa at Austria au Australia
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aw Aruba az Azerbaijan ba Bosnia and Herzegovina bb Barbados bd Bangladesh be Belgium bf Burkina Faso bg Bulgaria bh Bahrain bi Burundi bj Benin bm Bermuda bn Brunei Darussalam bo Bolivia br Brazil bs Bahamas bt Bhutan bv Bouvet Island bw Botswana by Belarus bz Belize ca Canada cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands cd Democratic Republic of the Congo cf Central African Republic cg Republic of Congo ch Switzerland ci Cote D'Ivoire ck Cook Islands cl Chile cm Cameroon cn China co Colombia cr Costa Rica cs Checkoslovakia cu Cuba cv Cape Verde cx Christmas Island cy Cyprus cz Czech Republic de Germany dj Djibouti dk Denmark dm Dominica do Dominican Republic dz Algeria ec Ecuador ee Estonia eg Egypt eh Western Sahara
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er Eritrea es Spain et Ethiopia fi Finland fj Fiji fk Falkland Islands (Malvinas) fm Federated States of Micronesia fo Faroe Islands fr France ga Gabon gd Grenada ge Georgia gf French Guiana gg Guernsey gh Ghana gi Gibraltar gl Greenland gm Gambia gn Guinea gp Guadeloupe gq Equatorial Guinea gr Greece gs South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands gt Guatemala gu Guam gw Guinea-Bissau gy Guyana hk Hong Kong hm Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands hn Honduras hr Croatia ht Haiti hu Hungary id Indonesia ie Ireland il Israel im Isle of Man in India io British Indian Ocean Territory iq Iraq ir Islamic Republic of Iran is Iceland it Italy je Jersey jm Jamaica jo Jordan jp Japan ke Kenya kg Kyrgyzstan kh Cambodia
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ki Kiribati km Comoros kn Saint Kitts and Nevis kp Democratic People's Republic of Korea kr Republic of Korea kw Kuwait ky Cayman Islands kz Kazakhstan la Lao People's Democratic Republic lb Lebanon lc Saint Lucia li Liechtenstein lk Sri Lanka lr Liberia ls Lesotho lt Lithuania lu Luxembourg lv Latvia ly Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ma Morocco mc Monaco md Republic of Moldova mg Madagascar mh Marshall Islands mk Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ml Mali mm Myanmar mn Mongolia mo Macau mp Northern Mariana Islands mq Martinique mr Mauritania ms Montserrat mt Malta mu Mauritius mv Maldives mw Malawi mx Mexico my Malaysia mz Mozambique na Namibia nc New Caledonia ne Niger nf Norfolk Island ng Nigeria ni Nicaragua nl Netherlands no Norway np Nepal nr Nauru
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nu Niue nz New Zealand om Oman pa Panama pe Peru pf French Polynesia pg Papua New Guinea ph Philippines pk Pakistan pl Poland pm Saint Pierre and Miquelon pn Pitcairn pr Puerto Rico ps Occupied Palestinian Territory pt Portugal pw Palau py Paraguay qa Qatar re Reunion Island ro Romania ru Russian Federation rw Rwanda sa Saudi Arabia sb Solomon Islands sc Seychelles sd Sudan se Sweden sg Singapore sh Saint Helena si Slovenia sj Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands sk Slovak Republic sl Sierra Leone sm San Marino sn Senegal so Somalia sr Suriname st Sao Tome and Principe sv El Salvador sy Syrian Arab Republic sz Swaziland tc Turks and Caicos Islands td Chad tf French Southern Territories tg Togo th Thailand tj Tajikistan tk Tokelau tl Timor-Leste tm Turkmenistan
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tn Tunisia to Tonga tr Turkey tt Trinidad and Tobago tv Tuvalu tw Taiwan tz Tanzania ua Ukraine ug Uganda uk United Kingdom um USA Minor Outlying Islands us United States of America uy Uruguay uz Uzbekistan va Vatican City vc Saint Vincent and The Grenadines ve Venezuela vg British Virgin Islands vi USA Virgin Islands vn Viet Nam vu Vanuatu wf Wallis and Futuna Islands ws Western Samoa ye Yemen yt Mayotte yu Serbia and Montenegro (Yugloslavia) za South Africa zm Zambia zw Zimbabwe
3. IANA Considerations
IANA will maintain the IETF Country Codes registry consisting of two case insenstitive [ASCII] letters the first of which is not "X". All IETF Country Codes starting with "X" are reserved for local use.
(Note: should all available two letter pairs be allocated, it may become necessary to allow ASCII digits in IETF Country Codes. Code which processes IETF Country Codes should allow for this possibility.)
New two letter codes will be allocated based on either (1) a decision of the IESG or (2) the issuance by the United Nations of a new United Nations Country Number. In the first case, the IESG will specify the code. In the second case, the code desired by the apparent UN recognized authority in the area for which the UN Country Number was issued will normally choose the code; however, if they fail to designate an unsed code within a reasonable length of time, IANA will
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select a code at random for the available two letter codes using a procedure such as that described in [RFC 2777].
IETF Country Codes will be de-allocated only by a decision of the IESG.
4. Security Considerations
There are not believed to be any substantial security effects from this document. It may improve security by increasing the stability of country codes used in IETF protocols and it may reduce security due to any confusion caused by divergence between IETF Country Codes, ISO Country Codes, and other Country Codes; however, such confusion may already exist in, for example, DNS top level country code domains which have not changed despite ISO Country Code changes.
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Normative References
[ASCII] - "USA Standard Code for Information Interchange", X3.4 American National Standards institute: New York, 1968.
[RFC 2777] - "Publicly Verifiable Nomcom Random Selection", D. Eastlake 3rd, February 2000.
Informative References
[ISO 3166-1] - "Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries and Their Subdivisions - Part 1: Country Codes", ISO, 1997.
[RFC 1034] - "Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities", P. Mockapetris, STD 13, November 1987.
[RFC 1035] - "Domain Names - Implementation and Specifications", P. Mockapetris, STD 13, November 1987.
[RFC 1591] - "Domain Name System Structure and Delegation", J. Postel, March 1994.
[RFC 2396] - "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, and L. Masinter, August 1998.
[RFC 2616] - "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P. Leach, T. Berners- Lee, June 1999.
[RFC 3066] - "Tags for the Identification of Languages", H. Alvestrand, January 2001.
[XML] - "Extensible Mark Up Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition)", T. Bray, J. Paoli, C. M Sperberg-McQueen, E. Maler, February 1998.
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Author's Address
Donald E. Eastlake 3rd 155 Beaver Street Milford, MA 01757 USA
Telephone: +1-508-634-2066 (h) EMail: Donald.Eastlake@motorola.com
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This draft expires February 2004.
Its file name is draft-eastlake-ietf-codes-00.txt.
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Status of This Document....................................1 Copyright Notice...........................................1 Abstract...................................................1
Table of Contents..........................................2
1. Introduction and Effect.................................3 2. Country Codes...........................................3 3. IANA Considerations.....................................8 4. Security Considerations.................................9
Normative References......................................10 Informative References....................................10
Author's Address..........................................11
Full Copyright Statement..................................12 Expiration and File Name..................................12
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