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From time to time, Mozilla products or websites need to include lists of "countries". This page outlines agreed best practice when doing so. | From time to time, Mozilla products or websites need to include lists of "countries". This page outlines agreed best practice when doing so. | ||
The standard Mozilla list of country and region names is the [https://nsgreg.nga.mil/registries/browse/results.jsp?registryType=genc®isterField= | The standard Mozilla list of country and region names is the [https://nsgreg.nga.mil/registries/browse/results.jsp?registryType=genc®isterField=IE4&browseType=genc GENC list], maintained by the US Government. (Note that unfortunately that website uses a security certificate from the US Government's hierarchy, which Firefox does not trust. Therefore, you can expect to see a certificate error. It is bypassable but, if you do so, do not share sensitive information with the site.) There are several good reasons for choosing this list, which was chosen after careful consideration in a discussion on the [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.governance/CZ_He_ul63s mozilla.governance Forum]. There is no perfect list, but using someone else's was considered much preferable to maintaining our own, and it was judged that this one makes acceptable decisions in most of the controversial cases. | ||
So there are just two things you have to do to minimise the amount of geopolitical angst your product or website might cause: | So there are just two things you have to do to minimise the amount of geopolitical angst your product or website might cause: | ||