New UN M.49 code element for South Sudan

[Misha.Wolf at thomsonreuters.com]

What will we do re the rump “Sudan” if the ISO 3166 MA gives it the “SD” Alpha-2 code which used to belong to the old Sudan?

 

Misha

 

 

 

From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell
Sent: 16 July 2011 19:31
To: ietf-languages at iana.org
Subject: New UN M.49 code element for South Sudan

 

According to the UN M.49 site (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm), the U.N. Statistics Division has added new code elements for Sudan (729) and South Sudan (728), and has retired the existing code element 736 for Sudan, as it applied to a different area.

 

This is a step toward South Sudan being assigned new alpha-2 and alpha-3 code elements in ISO 3166-1, which will ultimately result in a new region subtag in the Language Subtag Registry.

 

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