On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 15:45 +0100, Alan Burlison wrote: > My suggestion is that we replace this with an explicit country list. > Google likes http://schmidt.devlib.org/data/countries.txt, but I'm open > to other suggestions for a data source.
Occasionally people get into nasty arguments about what is and isn't a country and demand additions or removals from such lists. To better deflect such arguments, I'd want to explicitly reference a document from an organization which is actually authoritative on the subject rather than an individual developer's personal website. My understanding (from watching the IETF and IANA dodge this question) is the best such authority is the ISO 3166 country code lists. It looks like: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/background_on_iso_3166/iso_3166-1_and_cctlds.htm is a good starting point. - Bill _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
