On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Majken Connor <[email protected]> wrote:
> It would be interesting to consider the option of including any and all > country codes and allowing the user to choose. That would also allow > Mozilla to say that it is the individual who is making the political > statement. > > I think that is reasonable, however, it's at the core of what is being debated here. What is the measure for including a country? In the case of Kosovo, it is *not* a UN member state because it is recognized by 108 UN member state, but not by the remaining 85, and it is disputed by one. The comparison to other regions that Adam made are not helpful because they tend to not have as wide an acceptance, if any at all. Kosovo is not listed in ISO 3166, albeit in the CIA World Factbook[1] which takes its list from a US federal information processing standard (FIPS, meanwhile superseded by GENC)[2]. If we defer to a third party entity, which we probably should, there's a question which. Our choice of ISO 3166 has left many unhappy because it pivots on UN membership. For the same reason, the US government issues the GENC standard which is a superset of ISO 3166. I took the freedom to diff GENC against our (normalized) region data: https://gist.github.com/fwenzel/5259ec6ec8b98d90cab1 Not a patch that can land this way, but it outlines pretty well the problems caused by strict adherence to ISO 3166 and the regions that we might want to mention in addition to that. ~F [1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendix-d.html [2] http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/news/GENC _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
