[cabfpub] C=GR, C=UK exceptions in BRs

[Gervase Markham]

On 20/03/17 08:03, Dimitris Zacharopoulos via Public wrote:
> I don't know if the Greek government has contacted ISO3166 in order to
> add some text that makes an "exceptional reservation" notice for "EL"
> but would this change anything? I mean "UK" is already marked as
> "exceptionally reserved" but it's still not allowed in the current BRs.

It would change everything. If EL were exceptionally reserved, that
would mean it could not be allocated to another country, and it would be
reserved for use by Greece. Without such an exceptional reservation, it
could be allocated at any time. New countries do come into being from
time to time, you know :-)

In other words, I think it would be fine (although not compulsory) to
update the BRs to allow countries to use alternate codes which were
exceptionally reserved for them. There is no risk of ambiguity here. But
it would be deeply unwise for us to update the BRs to allow the use of
officially-unallocated country identifiers.

I am not suggesting that Dimitris petition the ISO, I am saying that if
the Greek government want people to use EL, _they_ need to sort it out
with ISO. They probably have more clout than Dimitris, anyway ;-)

Gerv