On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Frank Ellermann wrote: > > The history of UK vs. GB is explained in RFC 3071 - for unrelated > reasons I read it yesterday again. RFC 3071's comments about the crown dependencies are now obsolete, since they have been added to ISO 3166. The ISO 3166 FAQ also has more information about UK vs. GB than RFC 3071: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166-faqs/iso_3166_faqs_specific.htm See also the international conventions on road traffic, under which the international licence plate country codes are maintained by the UN. GB has been the designation for the United Kingdom for a long time, from before the existance of ISO 3166 let alone the DNS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_license_plate_codes Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@xxxxxxxx> http://dotat.at/ SHANNON: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7, OCCASIONALLY GALE 8. MODERATE OR ROUGH, INCREASING VERY ROUGH IN NORTH. OCCASIONAL RAIN. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR. _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf