Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> 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.
Though they have the known hot potato that got dtlogin in trouble for just
using the ISO 3166 country code lists as is:
TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA TW
So it's not controversy free either.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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