Re: The ISO 3166 code CS

From: Richard H. McCullough <rhm@cdepot.net> · Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:31:29 -0700

The MKR context (space,time,view) can easily describe such situations.

    at time = t1 { Czechoslovakia has countryCode = CS; };
    at time = t2 { Czech Republic has countryCode = CZ; Slovakia has
countryCode = SK; };

You can even talk about the change process itself

    at time = t3 { ISO do change od countryCode from { ... } to { ... }
done; };

The MKR language is described at http://rhm.cdepot.net/.

Dick McCullough
knowledge := man do identify od existent done;
knowledge haspart proposition list;

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
To: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:53 AM
Subject: FW: The ISO 3166 code CS

>
>
>
> Temporal logic needed ....
>
> (This impacts RDF in that ISO 3166 codes, such as CS can be used in RFC
3066
> language tags, that can be used in RDF literals and rdf:XMLLiterals).
>
>
> ....
>
> (or perhaps just URIs for language tags)
>
> Jeremy
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  John Clews
> Sent: 04 August 2003 16:38
> To: ietf-languages@iana.org
> Subject: The ISO 3166 code CS
>
>
> I'd be interested in views about ISO 3166 maintenance,
> and the unprecedented reuse by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency
> of previous codes.
>
> No proposal to reuse codes was made at the ISO/TC46/WG2 (Country
> Codes) meeting in Rome, when it met earlier in 2003.
>
> The nature of the problem is as follows:
>
> CS was previously Czechoslovakia in ISO 3166, and CS was added to
> ISO 3166-3 (superseded codes) when the Czech Republic and Slovakia
> were allocated CZ and SK instead of CS.
>
> Much to my surprise, Serbia and Montenegro requested the use of this
> for Serbia and Montenegro while they still use the code YU, and there
> is no indication that YU is deprecated, or that it will be added to
> ISO 3166-3.
>
> More to my surprise, the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (maintained
> within ISO HQ itself, in Switzerland) granted this request, and
> apparently did not refer to ISO 3166-3 (superseded codes).
>
> 1. What implications are there for the consistent use of YU, CS,
>    CZ and SK in relation to RFC 3066 and other codes which also use
>    ISO 3166 normatively?
>
> 2. Is there any actions or representations that should be undertaken?
>
> I look forward to comments.
>
> Best wishes
>
> John Clews
>
> (**address deleted**)
>
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