Address of ISO 3166 mailing list
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Tue Jun 3 18:16:32 CEST 2003
At 15:36 +0100 2003-06-03, Marion Gunn wrote:
>Context: Ireland advisability of reserving 'EI' tag for cited usage
>(baggage-handling at international airports) and the fact I am only
>discovering now that some things such as this, which I had taken for
>granted as being registered/reserved for/by NSAI have yet to be so
>registered/reserved.
I am sure that the ISO 3166 maintenance agency will reply indicating
that it would be inadvisable to do so. Ireland has a 3166 two-letter
code, IE, which is entirely satisfactory for the purposes assigned to
it, such as in internet domain names. I expect that the reason UK was
"reserved" was because the internet domain names were already using
it instead of GB, and by reserving it one potential confusion might
be avoided.
There is no reason to "take for granted" that NSAI would have taken a
view that these codes should have been reserved. It isn't a good
idea, and there aren't any grounds for making the request.
I have already noted that "baggage-handling at international
airports" does not constitute an implementation of EI any more than
it does of IE, except in the accident that the two-letter airline
code EI refers to Aer Lingus. It takes some expertise to know the
difference between a country code, a language code, and an airline
code, but it doesn't take very much.
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