ISO 3166-1 newsletter on Serbia and Montenegro

[Doug Ewell]

John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:

> In short, we need to deprecate CS (for the last time, we hope),
> and add RS for Serbia and ME for Montenegro.

We can only deprecate CS this one time.  If ISO 3166/MA re-reused it, 
for a reunified Serbia and Montenegro or any other entity, we would have 
to press a UN M.49 3-digit code element into service as a region subtag. 
We did that on purpose.

In separate mails I will send the three necessary registration forms:

* to add region subtag RS
* to add region subtag ME
* to deprecate region subtag CS

Please note that CS will *not* have a Preferred-Value attached to it. 
This is exactly the same situation as for region subtags NT and SU.  It 
should be evident that neither "Serbia" nor "Montenegro" is a suitable 
replacement for "Serbia and Montenegro."

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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
RFC 4645  *  UTN #14