Fwd: ISO 3166-1 Newsletter V-8 on Serbia and Montenegro published

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

To IAB, IESG and John Klensin (IAB appointed person in ICANN Board).

A new 3166-1 country code is assigned.

    paf

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Wischhoefer Cord" <wischhoefer@iso.org>
> Date: ons jul 23, 2003  09:59:55 Europe/Stockholm
> To: "Countrycodes@Iso. Org" <countrycodes@iso.org>
> Subject: ISO 3166-1 Newsletter V-8 on Serbia and Montenegro published
> Reply-To: <Wischhoefer@iso.org>
>
> Dear All,
>
> The ISO 3166-1 Newsletter announcing the change from "Yugoslavia" to  
> "Serbia
> and Montengro" and stating the new alphabetic code elements of the  
> country,
> "CS" and "SCG", has been published today.
>
> You can download this document from the section "Updates on ISO 3166"  
> on our
> website:
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/03updates-on-iso- 
> 3166/ind
> ex.html
>
> The codes CS and SCG allow a visual association with the country's name
> components in the national language: "Srbija" (Serbia) and "Crna Gora"
> (Montenegro). The codes SC, SM or MS - other possible candidates for  
> the
> country name - are already taken by other countries. See the decoding  
> table
> of the alpha-2 code in the "ISO 3166 Code lists" section if you want  
> to know
> which country names they stand for:
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code- 
> lists/iso
> _3166-1_decoding_table.html
>
> Please note that the alpha-2 code "CS" represented "Czechoslovakia" in  
> ISO
> 3166-1 until 1993. After the split-up of the country into "Czech  
> Republic"
> and "Slovakia" in 1993 it remained on the list of reserved codes until  
> now.
> This is only the second time since 1974 that a withdrawn code element  
> has
> been re-assigned to a new country name.
>
> You will also find the third Newsletter on ISO 3166-3 "Code for  
> formerly
> used names of countries" on the "Updates on ISO 3166" page (scroll  
> down to
> the bottom of the page). It announces the inclusion of the name  
> Yugoslavia
> into the third part of ISO 3166.
>
> I hope you find this information useful.
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Cord Wischhöfer
> ISO 3166/MA Secretary
> Tel.: +41 22 749 72 33
> Fax: +41 22 749 73 49
> E-mail: wischhoefer@iso.org <mailto:wischhoefer@iso.org>
> http://www.iso.org/mara/iso3166