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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 1, 2015, at 6:42 AM, Jaap Akkerhuis <<a href="mailto:jaap@NLnetLabs.nl" class="">jaap@NLnetLabs.nl</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">All,<br class=""><br class="">In the last call I pleaded for consistency of terms, when referring to<br class="">ISO subjects. As I have noticed over time (and not only our group but<br class="">all over the ICANN community) there is a tendency use informal<br class="">terminology and definitions in various discussions. That does sometimes<br class="">causes confusions of Babylonian proportions.<br class=""><br class="">I offer here some clarifications in the form of this FAQ. I hope it<br class="">helps to minimize the confusion in the discussion, and also in the<br class="">development of the glossary to our current draft.<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>jaap<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br class="">----<br class=""><br class="">Q: What is the ISO 3166?<br class=""><br class="">A: It is an international standard developed by ISO. ISO 3166 provides<br class=""> universally applicable coded representations of names of countries<br class=""> (current and non-current), dependencies, and other areas of<br class=""> particular geopolitical interest and their subdivisions. The<br class=""> standards consists of three parts, ISO 3166-1 (Part 1: Countries<br class=""> codes), ISO 3166-2 (Part 2: Country subdivisions code), ISO3166-3<br class=""> (Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries). The edition<br class=""> (version) of is identified by the year of publication. Therefore<br class=""> the full reference to the current (third) Edition of ISO 3166 Part<br class=""> is ISO 3166-1:2013.<br class=""><br class=""> The codes only uses the ASCII letters (A-Z) and numbers (0-9) and<br class=""> for ISO 3166-2, hyphens.<br class=""><br class="">Q: What form of codes are defined?<br class=""><br class="">A: ISO3166-1 uses two letter codes alpha-2), three letter codes<br class=""> (alpha-3) and numerical codes, ISO 3166-2 uses codes starting with<br class=""> and ISO 3166 alpha-2 code an hyphen and one or more letters or<br class=""> numbers, while ISO 3166-4 uses 4 letter codes.<br class=""><br class=""> The codes can have various classifications such as Assigned (by ISO<br class=""> 3166/MA or User Assigned), Unassigned, Reserved in various ways<br class=""> (Exceptionally, transitional, and Indeterminately). See also<br class=""> <<a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/country_codes_glossary.htm" class="">http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/country_codes_glossary.htm</a>><br class=""> for details.<br class=""><br class=""> The real authoritative source for these terms is of course the<br class=""> Standard itself.<br class=""><br class="">Q: What is the ISO list code list?<br class=""><br class="">A: There just a list. However the term is used colloquially to denote<br class=""> (most of the time) the list with the Country Code Assignments in<br class=""> Section 9 of ISO 3166-1. People tend to use this imprecise, often<br class=""> lumping the Reserved Codes also in the notion of "the ISO 3166<br class=""> list". At the same token but even more confusing is the use of the<br class=""> term "the ISO 3166-2 list" not meaning part 2 of the standard but<br class=""> the list of the alpha-2 codes from Part one (and then it isn't<br class=""> whether they mean all possible codes, both the Assigned and the<br class=""> Reserved or just the Assigned).<br class=""><br class="">Q: What is the purpose of all these codes anyway?<br class=""><br class="">A: To paraphrase from ISO 3166-1, the codes are intended to be used in<br class=""> any application requiring the expression of current country names<br class=""> in coded form. The term "country names" is defined in definition<br class=""> 3.4 "name of country, dependency, or other area of particular<br class=""> geopolitical interest". That is why often sees the term "Countries<br class=""> and territories" is used as a reminder that it is not just about<br class=""> countries.<br class=""><br class="">Q: What has statistics to do with these codes?<br class=""><br class="">A: The list of countries in Part 1 are based (but not limited to) on<br class=""> the list in the "Standard Country or Area Code for Statistical Use"<br class=""> of the UN.<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Ctn-crosscom mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Ctn-crosscom@icann.org" class="">Ctn-crosscom@icann.org</a><br class="">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ctn-crosscom<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>