On: Yugoslavia's Digital Twin – When a country's internet domain outlives the nation

[_ache_]

ISO 3166 has a a lot of legacy countries (edit: countries code ! not countries), not the ICANN fault. Like Guadeloupe, that is a French region, not a independent island (and doesn't want to be). I should study why these code exists since there aren't UN members. Seems a lot political for me.

[j16sdiz → _ache_]

ISO 3166 is a list of country/region _for statistics purpose_.

[dragonwriter → _ache_]

If “Legacy” is your explanation for non-UN member state country codes, explain PS (which also has a corresponding ccTLD)?

[_ache_ → dragonwriter]

Recognize by UN. It's not even legacy. The legacy part was about « The use of UN recognition » to refer to countries (that's a new definition). Not anything like it's a country that should not exists, I apologize for any bad wording.

Source: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/non-member-states

[computerfriend → _ache_]

Taiwan is not a "legacy" country, but I think the point is that the article's claim, that the ISO 3166 country codes correspond to UN seat holders, is false.

[_ache_ → computerfriend]

I apologize for any bad wording. Didn't intend to say that Guadeloupe was a legacy country or anything, nor Taïwan. The legacy part was about using something other than UN recognition (before using that rule). You're right about the point I wanted to make.