Guernsey Jersey and Isle of Man ISO 3166-1 Codes

[Debbie Garside]

Michael wrote:

> I don't see any reason to do this kind of annotation.

I cannot remember how many times I have heard people on this list talking
about backward compatibility... and yet you don't want to record historical
changes to the codes that you rely on?  Strange!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
> Sent: 31 March 2006 16:23
> To: IETF Languages Discussion
> Subject: RE: Guernsey Jersey and Isle of Man ISO 3166-1 Codes
> 
> At 15:33 +0100 2006-03-31, Debbie Garside wrote:
> >Michael Everson wrote:
> >
> >>Why?
> >
> >The justification is in the official request.
> >
> >"This is a request to add a comment to the existing GB region
> >    subtag that cross-references GB to subtags for related regions
> >    which were previously denoted by GB."
> >
> >I just think this would be useful. It certainly won't do any harm.
> 
> I don't see any reason to do this kind of annotation.
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