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Re: Is URN:UL allowable NID?

Thomas,
Not really since its more than possible that the UN could assign UL in the near future. If you look at the proliferation of small nations like Touvaloo and St. Kitts its easy to see that the UN will need all of their two letter country codes. We would really hate to get in a situation where UL is given out as a URN NID and then the UN assigns that as a country code. I've seen some of the country code level politics and the nationalism gets pretty scary really quick.

-MM


Thomas Edwards wrote: 
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is investigating
the registration of URN:UL for Universal Labels (as defined by ANSI /
SMPTE 298M-1997).

While it is clear from RFC 3406 that two-letter NIDs that are Country
Codes are reserved, "UL" is not a two-letter ISO 3166-1 Country Code.

So is URN:UL an allowable NID?