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Re: [Asrg] Re: Country numbers

2005-12-09 15:15:02

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Frank Ellermann wrote:

gep2(_at_)terabites(_dot_)com wrote:

I think that "1" is the country number for the USA!  (It's
certainly the country number used for the USA in
international phone calling, aren't those numbers the same?)

Not the same, the US number 840 is listed on their info page:

<http://countries.nerd.dk/more.html>  Apparently 127.0.0.8 is
their smallest result:  <http://countries.nerd.dk/isolist.txt>

I found ISO country code numbers to not be very interesting, nor are
they well known (some don't know it exists, otherwise confuse it with telephone codes, etc). For this and similar reasons I chose to use ASCII codes of ISO (IANA CCtld really) 2-letter codes for similar service:
 
http://www.completewhois.com/statistics/data/ips-bycountry/rirstats/1ST-READ-THIS.txt

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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net

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