Joseph S. Myers wrote:
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Paul Eggert wrote:
The British Internet top level domains disagree with ISO 3166. ISO 3166 lists only "GB"; but the British Internet TLDs are .uk, .gg, .je, .im, and .ac (for Ascension). This is for historical reasons. The corresponding ISO 3166 codes are reserved for future use
Are some other codes reserved, like BB for Bassas-da-India? (of course, in the case the pinguins ask for independance ;->) BTW, Paul, the problem with EU is perhaps that it may be indirectly needed by ISO 4217 (currencies), which include EUR for Euro, that departs for the noraml scheme (2-letter ISO 3166 + 1-letter initial of the native currency name)
Now I might wonder whether the ISO 3166 criteria for dependent territories are documented somewhere?
From what I have seen of the behaviour of ISO working groups, I believe that there is nothing except what is already written in the ISO 3166 serie of standard, where there are some information about this topic, but I am unable to sketch the easily.
BTW, does someone know if ISO 3166 text is or will be available online or for a modest/reasonnable fee? Antoine