> The IANA is not in the business of deciding what is and what is not a country. The selection of the ISO 3166 list as a basis for country code top-level domain names was made with the knowledge that ISO has a procedure for determining which entities should be and should not be on that list.
Jon Postel, RFC 1591 (Domain Name System Structure and Delegation)
Jon Postel, RFC 1591 (Domain Name System Structure and Delegation)