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IETF Country Codes
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.
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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
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<draft-eastlake-ietf-codes-00.txt>
Status of This Document
Distribution of this draft is unlimited. Comments should be sent to
the author. It is intended to become a special Best Current Practice
amending all existing IETF Standards and Best Current Practices to
which it applies.
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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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Expiration and File Name
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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