[Asis-standards] ISO 3166

[Betty Landesman]

Agreed.

Betty

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From: asis-standards-bounces at asis.org [asis-standards-bounces at asis.org] on behalf of Baden Hughes [baden.hughes at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:41 AM
To: Mark Needleman
Cc: ASIST Standards Committee
Subject: Re: [Asis-standards] ISO 3166

We should definitely support periodic review and or revision of this
standard, since there are definitely changes that need to be reflected in
it relating to geopolitical machinations. The US list of comments is by no
means exhaustive, and the general issue of reference sources being no
longer aligned is a major issue.

Baden

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Mark Needleman <mneedlem at ufl.edu> wrote:

> The 3 parts of ISO 3166:
>
> ISO/FDIS 3166-1, Codes for the representation of names of countries and
> their subdivisions - Part 1: Country codes
>
> ISO/FDIS 3166-2, Codes for the representation of names of countries and
> their subdivisions - Part 2: Country subdivision code
>
> SO/FDIS 3166-3, Codes for the representation of names of countries and
> their subdivisions - Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries
>
>
> are up for revision - its a short ballot cycle so i need comments by 5/23
> - I have attached the drafts plus a document with some comments on Part 2
> from 1997 to this message
>
> My suggestion since these are heavily used standards is to vote to revise
> - but others might have different opinions
>
>
> Mark
>