John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote: >> See my other message. Non-updated copies of the standard and >> unofficial code lists were much more common than official subscribed >> copies of the standard. (How many people, even now, know about the >> special meaning of "OO" and "OOO" in ISO 3166? You can really only >> find out about those by reading the standard.) > > Not I, for sure. Whatever it is, it isn't in the draft registry. > Should it be? What does it mean? I thought so. "OO" and "OOO" are special escape codes to indicate a switch to a different coding system. We don't have to worry about them in the registry because they are not assigned in ISO 3166, and because draft-registry defines only one "coding system," with a choice of registered or private-use subtags. As described in a draft update to ISO 3166-1: "8.1.4 Extended facility of user-assigned code elements (escape code element) "If the number of user-assigned code elements in 8.1.3 is not sufficient to cover a particular user requirement, the alphabetic code elements OO or OOO or the numeric code element 000 are to be utilized to indicate that code elements other than those defined in this part of ISO 3166 are used." Or as paraphrased by Clive Feather: "The codes OO, OOO, and 000 are designated for use as "escape codes" to indicate that additional codes are being used." I can't find any previous message about this in my "Sent" box. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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