<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#000000">there are disputes as to what is a country so this is a recursive proposition that may not work. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#000000">there are disputed regions with disagreement about what names are applicable - see Nagorno-Karabakh until recently.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#000000">v</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 3:46 AM Johan Helsingius via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 17/10/2023 01:36, Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates wrote:<br>
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> We have an absolute, unbending policy of sticking to ISO 3166 because it is the only standard we know of in this space.<br>
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I know it sounds a bit overly simple, but how about the idea of allowing<br>
countries themselves decide what they are called?<br>
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        Julf<br>
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