Le 2010-10-05 05:12, Margot a écrit :
On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:48:58 -0400
Marc Paré<[email protected]> wrote:
Using gb for the United Kingdom would possibly be politically
dangerous, which is why UK websites are .co.uk .org.uk etc and
not .co.gb .org.gb etc.
The full name of our country is the "United Kingdom of Great
Britain& Northern Ireland" - using the GB code is offensive
to people from Northern Ireland, because Northern Ireland is a
valued part of the United Kingdom but is NOT part of Great
Britain.
As IRC is an internet service, I suggest we stay with UK for the
United Kingdom (to match our websites) and Ukraine should be UA.
Hi Margot:
Fortunately for all concerned, the issues with ISO country codes
had nothing to do politically, it was by agreement by all.
Ireland has its own country code all of its own. ISO agreement
are traditionally closely monitored by the UN membership states.
Marc
Northern Ireland is NOT part of Ireland, it is part of the UK.
I know that Wikipedia is not always a trusted source of
information, but this page is pretty accurate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland
Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on one's point of view, by
international convention (meaning that all parties were in agreement at
the time of signing) Ireland's country code is IE. Ireland was part of
this agreement.
Marc
