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[Simon Castano <netherland-office AT liberland.org>]

As far as I understand RFC does indeed not define a list of two letters 
TLD, nor does ICANN.
ICANN refers to ISO 3166, which in turns refers to UN / UN agency 
membership.
So, any country added to ISO 3166 would receive a two and three letters 
code which would later be delagated by ICANN.

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Simon

On 2016-12-03 23:29, Aaron J. Angel wrote:
> SU is exceptionally reserved in 3316-1. I cannot find any reference
> for LL, and t does not seem to be delegated in the ICANN or OpenNIC
> roots; what is it?
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 5:23 PM Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281 AT gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Aaron J. Angel wrote:
> > > spaesani,
> > >
> > > You are correct that the RFC does not establish a list of
> > two-letter
> > > codes to be used as ccTLDs. It also does not specify any more than
> > a
> > > small number of gTLDs, yet we have plenty more than originally
> > listed.
> > > It does, however, incorporate ISO 3316-1 alpha-2 by reference,
> > which
> > > is also the only source for current two-letter TLDs. All other
> > TLDs,
> > > even the new ones approved by ICANN, are more than two characters
> > in
> > > length.
> > >
> > > I find it difficult to support any other use for two-letter TLDs
> > given
> > > that the list of country codes is an external source that is
> > subject
> > > to revision, especially one with whose author we have no qualms.
> > This
> > > is similar to the problem of new but overlapping ICANN-approved
> > gTLDs,
> > > except that OpenNIC has a strong disliking, I think, to the way
> > ICANN
> > > approves new gTLDs. This is not the case with the ISO country
> > codes.
> > > If your problem with limiting two-letter TLDs to ccTLDs is that we
> > are
> > > absent a policy of disallowing any other use, I would be firmly on
> > the
> > > side of establishing such a policy.
> >
> > I had always believed that the RFCs required such a policy. I
> > support
> > adopting a "all two-letter TLDs are reserved for ccTLDs" policy,
> > with
> > provisions that "country-like entities" may also be considered and
> > that
> > previously assigned country codes may remain valid. (This proviso
> > allows for .ll and .su to meet the criteria, for example.)
> >
> > -- Jacob
> >
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