[governance] Cameroon and Wales collision in TLD space ?????

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<76f819dd0910160853t7d929187g37e2791feb2d85e4 at mail.gmail.com>, at 
11:53:31 on Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Paul Lehto <lehto.paul at gmail.com> writes
>If there's not a democratic system of governance at ICANN, any such
>"collision" of domain names or any other issue for that matter is
>purely a matter for insider "experts" at ICANN and not the proper
>"domain" of anyone on this list.

You seem to suppose there are none of those experts on this list.

But in the case of ISO 3166 assignments, the experts are not "inside" 
ICANN but outside. The proposition in RFC1591 cannot be clearer:

       The IANA is not in the business of deciding what is and what is
       not a country.

       The selection of the ISO 3166 list as a basis for country code
       top-level domain names was made with the knowledge that ISO has a
       procedure for determining which entities should be and should not
       be on that list.
-- 
Roland Perry
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