On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:46:52 EST, Bruce Lilly said:
Accessibility has not been a problem for this implementor (who,
incidentally, was unaware of this draft until the New
Last Call). ISO 639 language code lists are readily available in
HTML-ized English and French via
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html
and
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/frenchlangn.html
ISO 3166 country code lists are readily available in plain text
in English and French via
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1-semic.txt
and
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-fr1-semic.txt
The ISO registered code lists are freely available at the URIs
given above. This implementor has used those URIs for years
without difficulty. The ISO standards themselves are not free,
but neither are they required for an implementor to identify
the valid codes -- the free lists suffice for that purpose.
I'm certainly belaboring the obvious (in that the standards in question
are basically useless unless at least this subset of information is freely
accessible so everybody uses the same values), but is there any statement
from the ISO side that this state of affairs (or equivalent access) is
going to continue for at least the code lists we need?
(I'd not even ask, except this seems to be the month we spend time worrying
about explosive bolts attached to our *own* infrastructure - seems to be a good
time to worry about institutional insanity on the part of a totally separate
standards organization.. ;)
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