Re: ISO 3166 mandatory?

[Bill Manning <bmanning at ISI.EDU>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:25:17PM +0100, Frank Ellermann wrote:
> lconroy wrote:
> 
> > I guess that the IETF Meeting Registration pages are run by/on
> > behalf of the IETF, and that's where the mandatory code is required.
> 
> Tons of forms want this for obscure purposes, if in doubt I pick UM.

	UM... glad to have you aboard...  www.nic.um  :)

> The history of UK vs. GB is explained in RFC 3071 - for unrelated
> reasons I read it yesterday again.  Obviously one country should
> have one code, and as far as that that code is mnemonic it should
> depend on the name of the country.  In theory "united kingdom" can
> be less persistent - in various countries that's not only a theory.

	actually, there were other issues w/ the use of
	country codes & the IETF in recent memory. A -MUCH-
	more sensitive approach is to call these entities 
	"economies"  :)

--bill


--bill
Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).

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