Re: [Ltru] Scope of ISO 3166//// Ltru Digest, Vol 44, Issue 26

[Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com>]

From: ltru-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of Lang Gérard

Thanks for this information.

> 1-The first edition (1974) contains article "3 PRINCIPLES
> FOR THE ENTITY LIST" , whose 3.1 writes:
> "The list includes entities intended to satisfy the requirements
> of the broadest range of applications.

If that is the case, then the MA should be willing to consider entities for semantics such as "worldwide", "unknown" and "not applicable", which would really be helpful in many IT applications. There's no reason why exception to the norm of having entities established by the UNSO can't be made for such special-purpose entities.


> 2-The second edition (1981) clarified still this point and
> contains article "1 Scope and field of application", whose first
> paragraph writes:
> "This International Standard provides basic two-letter alphabetic
> codes [etc.]... The codes represent the names of countries,
> dependancies and other areas of special interest for purposes of
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> international exchanges...."
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

In that case, why will the MA not encode entities such as Kosovo which many organizations doing business with that region must be able to support? The fact that the MA would consider telling users about other users' private-use code elements in cases such as XK suggests to me that there is a real user need that is in scope for the standard but that the standard, or the MA in its practice, is failing to address.



Peter
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