On 05.11.21 16:26, Brian Park via tz wrote:
Can you explain why [no ISO countries]? Because it will cause arguments about disputed places? I think only a small minority of places around the world are disputed.
Over the time I have been following this group: * YAR, South Yemen -> Yemen * Zaire -> DRC * East Germany, West Germany -> Germany * Yugoslavia -> Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia * Serbia & Montenegro -> Serbia, Montenegro * Serbia -> Serbia & Kosovo * Macedonia -> Northern Macedonia * Czechoslovakia, The Czech Republic, Slovakia * Czech Republic -> Czechia * Sudan -> Sudan, South Sudan * And then there's Russia and the Ukraine * Israel & Palestine * And South Africa and Namibia I'm sure I'm missing a few. You may say that these are a minority of nations, but these changes have NOT by themselves necessitated ANY work on the part of this project. That is a feature. To be clear, that work would involve someone taking a political stance, even if that means supporting UN decisions (that's a political decision). Better to stick with what we have: observe what people on the ground think the time is. Eliot