- From: Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@abenaki.wabanaki.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:30:42 -0500
- To: Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>
- CC: "W3C eGov Interest Group (All)" <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
Denmark asked the iso3166/ma for an allocation for Greenland. The request was granted. A request for the delegation was made to the IANA by the Greenland Homerule Government. The request was granted. I don't see a problem. Could you elaborate your claim? Eric On 12/13/10 1:45 PM, Gannon Dick wrote: > A recent contest involving Google's Chrome OS featured a contest which involved recognition of the "Google URL Shortener" at http://goo.gl/ > > The "only" problems are that this convention conflicts with both the IANA Root Zone [1] and ISO 3166-1 [2]. > > This highlights the problem of "hand offs" between Central Governments and Local Governments. In this case, the Kingdom of Denmark (an EU Member), has lost a measure of control of a subdivision (Greenland) in Cyberspace. > > --Gannon > > [1] http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/gl.html > [2] http://www.iso.org/iso/iso-3166-1_decoding_table > > > > > >
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