On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 20:01 +0100, Alan Burlison wrote: > From the webpage I referred to: > > A country or territory is in this list if at least one of the following > conditions apply: > > 1. It has an ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 (two letter) country code. > 2. It has a United Nations 3 digit numerical code. > 3. It has a country code top level domain (ccTLD) that > 1. exists or > 2. existed in the past but is still in use. > The second reason is responsible for the USSR still being listed. > > So I think the list I referred to is rigorous.
Country code lists are dynamic, at least on a year-to-year timescale. >From an implementation standpoint I don't see a problem with shadowing that list as long as he continues to maintain it. >From a specification & argument deflection standpoint we should explicitly cite the text you quoted above as the authority for this list since http://schmidt.devlib.org could just disappear some day without warning. - Bill _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
