[georss] GeoRSS Country Codes

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

Marc -

Yes, it also my understanding that ISO 3166 is the standard of choice for 
country codes. This is also true for the ITU.

Cheers

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc" <marc at geonames.org>
To: "Carl Reed OGC Account" <creed at opengeospatial.org>
Cc: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [georss] GeoRSS Country Codes


> Hi Carl
>
>> what is used by the IETF, W3C, and OASIS?
>
> I have searched the websites of these three organization and think they 
> are all using (two-letter) ISO 3166 codes. On all three websites I found a 
> lot of references to ISO 3166 but no reference to another code. The only 
> other country code I am aware of is "FIPS 10-4", but as far as I know this 
> code is only used by US governmental agencies.
>
> Marc