[cabfpub] C=GR, C=UK exceptions in BRs

[Erwann Abalea]

Bonjour,

Le 17 mars 2017 à 15:08, Gervase Markham via Public <public at cabforum.org<mailto:public at cabforum.org>> a écrit :

On 17/03/17 11:26, Dimitris Zacharopoulos via Public wrote:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2, it is documented
that the European Commission
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission> generally uses ISO
3166-1 alpha-2 codes *with two exceptions*: EL (not GR) is used to
represent Greece and UK (not GB) is used to represent the United Kingdom.

UK is "exceptionally reserved" in ISO 3166:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Exceptional_reservations
so therefore can't be taken by another country. However, EL is not so
reserved as far as I can see, and so could be allocated to another
country at any time.

You’re right, EL is « Unassigned » while UK is « Exceptionally reserved ».
See https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/en/#search.

Dimitris, the page http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Glossary:Country_codes lists country codes for statistics only, without any link to ISO3166-1.
An unassigned code is used for Palestine, non alpha-2 code is used for « China (except Hong-Kong) » (but no specific code for a similar « China (except Macao) »), and while this page seems to be dated December 2016, the country code MK is officially reserved (and was already so in my copy of 3166-1:2013).


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