New UN code elements for "Serbia" and "Montenegro"
Doug Ewell
dewell at adelphia.net
Sat Jul 1 19:18:08 CEST 2006
The UN Statistics Division has assigned new 3-digit numeric M.49 code
elements for Serbia (688) and for Montenegro (499), and has listed the
previously assigned code element for Serbia and Montenegro (891) under
the heading "Codes not in current use."
References:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49chang.htm
The first paragraph of Section 3.3 of draft-registry says that as new
codes are assigned in (among others) UN M.49, the Reviewer MUST evaluate
them for inclusion as new subtags in the Registry, and submit them if
there is no conflict.
However, since it is widely expected that ISO 3166/MA will soon assign
new alpha-2 (and alpha-3) code elements for these two countries,
corresponding to these UN code elements, I suggest we do NOT rush to
adopt the UN codes, but rather wait for the ISO codes to be announced.
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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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