- From: Martin J. Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 17:46:36 +0100 (MET)
- To: Thorvardur Kari Olafsson <thorvardur@stri.is>
- cc: Tom Garland SMI European Software Centre <tgarland@elc4.Ireland.Sun.COM>, www-international@www10.w3.org
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Thorvardur Kari Olafsson wrote: > At 14:35 7.1.1997, Tom Garland SMI European Software Centre > <tgarland@elc4.Irelan wrote: > >Hi folks, > >can anybody tell me what the current ISO 3166 alpha-2 country code is for > >the United Kingdom - "UK" or "GB"? My ISO3166:1993 spec tells me it is "GB". > > > The ISO code is definitely GB (like in GBP). This is unlikely to change. > > Usually, Internet top-domains use the ISO country codes, but .uk is an > exception from this rule (as are all those 3-character top-domain names). > > More on top-domain names: > I read in the latest ISO 3166 newsletter that some people are asking for > non-country based ISO codes to indicate new Internet top-domains, but > according to the current ISO standard, all country codes have to refer to a > territory. There is a strong urge to create more top level domains outside the ISO 3166 domains. This is currently addressed by the IAHC (see http://www.iahc.org/). However, as things stand, these new domains will all have more than two letters, to avoid any possible conflicts with ISO 3166. Regards, Martin.
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