From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 15:22:34 EST
Doug Ewell writes:
> > for the official english names (no change
> > necessary for the French version which is already "Corée" and
> > "coréen"), and possibly (if Corea opts for it) a new attribution for
> > its country code (but the "cr" country code is already assigned to
> > Costa-Rica).
>
> Please, please let the ISO 3166/MA not get sucked into this one.
That's not ISO 3166/MA that assigns official country names.
ISO 3166/MA just uses the official country list from the United Nations,
which is simply updating its registration for country members by their
official diplomatic representant. So the names are directly those claimed
and controled by governments of each country, and ISO 3366/MA has NO
decision power there:
Each country decides its official names for the work languages used at the
UN, which include English and French, but also for the publication languages
which also include now Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. (For ISO
publications, only English and French are needed for now).
All what ISO3166/MA will control is the assignment of 2-letter and 3-letter
country _codes_ (but not numeric country codes assigned by the UN in its
Statistics Bureau).
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