Turkey has switched Root-Servers

Tue Sep 27 21:50:05 UTC 2005

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Jared Mauch wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:42:22PM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
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> > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, James R. Cutler wrote:
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> > > Peter,
> > >
> > > I must have missed something here.
> > >
> > > Are there not individual root domains for each ISO-registered
> > > country, not just the US?  And, if there are individual root domains
> > > for each ISO-registered country, are they all controlled by the US?
> >
> > I'm not up on this exactly, but my reading of the NRIC report says that
> > some ISO document has all the 'official' (for ISO I suppose atleast) 2
> > letter abbreviations for country codes. These end up in the ccTLD list,
> > and then in the root servers delegated to the proper ccTLD auth servers
> > for that 2 letter code.
> >
> > The ISO list isn't a US owned thing at last I recall...
>
> 	ISO 3166 is what you want.
>
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1-semic.txt

hey look, that's in switzerland! :) So, not US controlled. (tinfoil hat
off....)