[cp-global] Restarting the countries and languages discussion

[Bob Jonkman]

Kai Engert wrote:
> If we use a subdomain, we make it possible to transfer
> country-specific infrastructure to a group in a country.

Agreed. Good idea to plan for the future, even if we never use that feature.

Also, there's unlikely to be ambiguity between countries and languages
since countries apply to mailing lists and languages apply to wikis.

--Bob, who's still has to catch up on the IRC log from earlier today.


On 14-03-24 05:40 PM, Kai Engert wrote:
> On Mo, 2014-03-24 at 14:28 -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote:
>> Why not remove all ambiguity and use the full name of the country?
>> 
>> canada at canada.cryptoparty.org
>> 
>> That way it doesn't get confused with
>> 
>> catalan at catalan.cryptoparty.org
>> 
>> (since both the country Canada and the language Catalan have the 
>> abbreviation "ca")
> 
> No ambiguity in my latest proposal, because languages use 2-letter, 
> country use 3-letter.
> 
> There are several countries who have rather long names, e.g.: - Saint
> Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha - Congo, the Democratic
> Republic of the
> 
> Would look quite ugly, I think.
> 
> 
>> And is the subdomain necessary? Would this mailing list address
>> work?
>> 
>> canada at cryptoparty.org
> 
> If we use a subdomain, we make it possible to transfer
> country-specific infrastructure to a group in a country. Because of
> the subdomain, this can be a transparent change, without the need for
> reconfiguration. We would change DNS, and the list address could
> remain unchanged.
> 
> I don't know how likely this is to happen. It was Moritz' suggestion
> to prepare for that eventuality.
> 
> I think the idea is good, and using a subdomain doesn't harm.
> 
> Kai
> 
> 
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