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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:27:35 +0100
To: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>, ltru@ietf.org
From: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@jefsey.com>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: Question
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At 12:38 26/03/2005, Frank Ellermann wrote:
>Mark Davis wrote:
>
> > Joe Blow was deciding whether his code should allow "en-BU"
>
>That's a sad story, like Jane Blog's adventure in cyberspace:
>
>Seeing RH on a car in Haiti she checks the ISO 3166-1 Web
>page and finds something about "RH Haiti" as expected,  So
>she tags a Creole text with fr-RH, and later she's surprised
>when her job application is returned by the ZW embassy.
>
> > let's just include the darned things for backwards
> > compatibility and move on to do something more productive.
>
>The most serious problem with the actual draft is, that it
>forces us to choose between an erroneous concept of backwards
>compatibility and compatibility with future country codes for
>the known list of "invalid" country codes.  At least for the
>decade 1995 - 2005 we can get one unambiguous idea of "valid".

I do not understand this problem. Are versioning and conflicts not 
supported by CVS for example?
UDC just choses to update its change on Jan 1st every year as did Internet 
when created.
Every military publication in the world, every legal texts, every 
commercial catalog, etc. has the same problem.

if AI was valid until 31/12/77 there are three entries in the tables:

AI77    262
AI      660
DJ      262
= 18 bytes

262     Djibouti
660     Anguilla
= 22 bytes

The application will use the date of the file to know the proper value of 
"AI".
This covers years -32.000 to + 32,000 .
The requirement is only that a datetag is provided or obtained from the 
file directory.
jfc

J-F C. MORFIN
UTEL, President


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