[ih] Internet should be in private hands

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Wed Dec 7 11:57:21 PST 2022


It appears that John Day via Internet-history <jeanjour at comcast.net> said:
>That is an odd error in ISO in ISO 3166 given the organizations involved.  (Being pedantic.) 
>
>Great Britain is a geographical term, while UK designates the political unit, which was what was of concern to the
>organizations involved. ...

ISO 3166 was originally issued in 1974. Despite what we might imagine,
the world has not always revolved around the Internet.

So what about AQ?  BV?  AX? GP, MQ, GF, and PM?

Geographically,
John



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