Clive D.W. Feather scripsit:
jcowan@reutershealth.com said:
uses the UN geographic codes whenever ISO duplicates a code, since unlike the ISO codes, the UN codes are stable.
They are not stable in the sense of never changing. They are stable in the sense of never being reassigned, unlike both the 2-alphas and the 3-alphas.
You hope. What guarantee do you have?
There are no guarantees in life. The U.N. has a formal policy that the numbers don't get reassigned unless the national territory changes substantially (Serbia & Montenegro has a new number compared to Yugoslavia) and don't get reused. -- "How they ever reached any conclusion at all jcowan@reutershealth.com> is starkly unknowable to the human mind." http://www.reutershealth.com --"Backstage Lensman", Randall Garrett http://www.ccil.org/~cowan