Which are still followed, and has actually a special status in international law (not just in ICANN) which unlike gTLDs (which .niue will be) means that these are literally untouchable even when, I don't know, a hostile country has hosted a command center on their ccTLD?
> Because it would circumvent this drama and make everyone happy.
That is your opinion. It's unlike .TV where Tuvalu has freely make the choice and still consents Verisign to manage .TV, it's literally Niue having no say on .NU
> ISO is not anything particularly special. There are a lot of silly ISOs out there. T Niue government was not even consulted when they were assigned NU.
The UK was not consulted either, and they want to have the code UK.
> It was just a bunch of white people assigning countries letters.
You know, a country can definitely request overhauling or overturning the ISO 3166 if they wanted to. You know why they didn't? Because they are at least ambivalent to it.
was? white people?
https://committee.iso.org/files/live/sites/tc176/files/Image...
^ quite a few non 'white' people, as if that would be a valid discriminator anyway
edit: current ISO president is an african from kenya:
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/news/eddy-njoroge-now...