Re: Suggestions about separation and ISO code

From: Jonas Melian Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 6:21 AM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Suggestions about separation and ISO code

1) To using ISO 3166 3-character country code becasuse is more readable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1

For any person it's easier to identify a country by the code of 3-letters that by the one of 2-letters.

Internet top level domain names for countries are 2-letter codes, derived from the ISO list. More people know something about the internet country codes than about 3-letter ISO codes. More or less related are the US Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4 codes, also 2-letter codes.