Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

>> 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.

Sure.  I took the list and lightly massaged it into a list of HTML form 
<option> tags, and that is then included into the select statement, so 
the list is centralised and obvious.

>>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.  

<%--
   -- List of countries as an option list.
   -- Source: http://schmidt.devlib.org/data/countries.txt
   -- 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.
   --%>
<option value="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</option>
<option value="Åland">Åland</option>
<option value="Albania">Albania</option>
<option value="Algeria">Algeria</option>
:
:

-- 
Alan Burlison
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