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

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos]

Thank you Gerv, I will try contacting the NQIS ELOT 
<https://www.iso.org/member/1759.html>, the Greek representative body in 
ISO, to see if there is more to this "EL" story.

Thanks everyone for the discussion.


Dimitris.



On 20/3/2017 2:35 μμ, Gervase Markham wrote:
> On 20/03/17 08:03, Dimitris Zacharopoulos via Public wrote:
>> I don't know if the Greek government has contacted ISO3166 in order to
>> add some text that makes an "exceptional reservation" notice for "EL"
>> but would this change anything? I mean "UK" is already marked as
>> "exceptionally reserved" but it's still not allowed in the current BRs.
> It would change everything. If EL were exceptionally reserved, that
> would mean it could not be allocated to another country, and it would be
> reserved for use by Greece. Without such an exceptional reservation, it
> could be allocated at any time. New countries do come into being from
> time to time, you know :-)
>
> In other words, I think it would be fine (although not compulsory) to
> update the BRs to allow countries to use alternate codes which were
> exceptionally reserved for them. There is no risk of ambiguity here. But
> it would be deeply unwise for us to update the BRs to allow the use of
> officially-unallocated country identifiers.
>
> I am not suggesting that Dimitris petition the ISO, I am saying that if
> the Greek government want people to use EL, _they_ need to sort it out
> with ISO. They probably have more clout than Dimitris, anyway ;-)
>
> Gerv

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