[governance] ISO-3166/MA (was Re: techno-politics)

[Norbert Bollow]

David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2013, at 6:52 PM, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:
> > An interesting twist to its rules was that it promised not to
> > remove any ccTLD even if ICANN did - this was in deference to the
> > question whether .su should continue to exist even though the
> > Soviet Union has itself ceased.
> 
> And you believe it appropriate that the fact that the ISO-3166
> Maintenance Agency, you know, the UN agency the defines what the 2
> letter code points actually are, had explicitly stated "Code element
> deleted from ISO 3166-1; stop using ASAP" should be completely
> irrelevant?

I can't refrain from nitpicking here, although it's entirely irrelevant
to the substance of this discussion thread.

The ISO-3166 Maintenance Agency is not a UN agency. It's a sui generis
body with the following composition:

"""
The composition of the ISO 3166/MA reflects the two stakeholder groups
which were primarily involved in the development of ISO 3166 in the
early 1970s: national standards organizations, members of ISO, and
United Nations agencies.

Of the ten experts with voting rights on the ISO 3166/MA five are
representatives of the following national standards organizations:

 *  Association française de normalisation AFNOR (France)
 *  American National Standards Institute ANSI (United States)
 *  British Standards Institution BSI (United Kingdom)
 *  Deutsches Institut für Normung DIN (Germany)
 *  Swedish Standards Institute SIS (Sweden)

The other five are representatives of major UN or other international
organizations who are all users of ISO 3166-1:

 *  International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
 *  International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
 *  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
 *  Universal Postal Union (UPU)
 *  United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

The ISO 3166/MA has further associated members who do not participate
in the votes but who - through their expertise - have significant
influence on the decision taking procedure in the maintenance agency.
The members can be contacted through the secretariat of the ISO 3166/MA.
"""

Source: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm

Greetings,
Norbert

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