ISO 3166 (country codes) Maintenance Agency Web pages move

[Tex Texin]

The web page says the old code is reserved for 5 years.
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/03updates-on-iso-3166/nlv3e-rou.html

More general links referenced here:
> This is to inform you that the Web pages of the ISO 3166/MA have been
> moved from DIN's Web site to ISOOnline, the Web site of ISO Central
> Secretariat at http://www.iso.org.
>
> The direct URL is
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html
>
> We have overhauled the pages completely. Please check the new content
> and layout.
>
> In case your organization has put links to the old site at
> http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/index.html and pages
> dependent from that one please make sure the links are updated.
>
> A web page summing up the information given in this mail is posted at:
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/01whats-new/2002-02-20-Webpages.html
>

Mark Davis wrote:
> 
> Of course, any change causes problems. However, they can minimize the
> problems if -- at a minimum -- they adopt a permanent, public policy
> that:
> 
>   a) Once established, a country code will never be reused to
> designate a different country.
>   b) If a country code is changed, the old code will remain as an
> alias, permanently.
> 
> That way, even if they continue the policy of changing names at whim,
> without regard for the consequences of their actions and the worldwide
> dependencies on stable country codes, at least old data is never
> invalidated.
> 
> Mark
> 
> (The same goes for language codes, of course.)
> —————
> 
> Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς
> [For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr]
> 
> http://www.macchiato.com
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
> To: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
> Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>; <ietf-languages@iana.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 11:21
> Subject: Re: ISO 3166 (country codes) Maintenance Agency Web pages
> move
> 
> > Michael Everson scripsit:
> > >  From the 3166 MA:
> > > =====
> > > New alpha-3 code element for Romania
> > >
> > > At the request of the Romanian Government the ISO 3166/MA decided
> to
> > > change the ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code element for
> Romania
> > > from ROM to ROU.
> > >
> > > The change took effect on 1 February 2002.
> > > =====
> >
> > As I understand it, this request is more of a command.  The only
> > fully stable codes in 3166 are the numeric ones.
> >
> > --
> > John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> cowan@ccil.org
> > To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.
> There
> > are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the
> language
> > that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was
> wonderful.
> >         --_The Hobbit_
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