[Asis-standards] ISO 3166

Thornburg,Gail thornbug at oclc.org
Fri May 17 13:50:14 EDT 2013


Same here

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[mailto:asis-standards-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of McGarry, Dorothy
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 1:49 PM
To: 'Betty Landesman'; 'Baden Hughes'; 'Mark Needleman'
Cc: 'ASIST Standards Committee'
Subject: Re: [Asis-standards] ISO 3166

I agree also,
Dorothy

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:asis-standards-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Betty Landesman
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 8:15 AM
To: 'Baden Hughes'; 'Mark Needleman'
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Subject: Re: [Asis-standards] ISO 3166

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
>

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