At 16:58 7/23/2003, Patrik Fältström wrote:
On onsdag, jul 23, 2003, at 22:28 Europe/Stockholm, John C Klensin wrote:They have a whole hierarchy of "reserved" codes that are not to be reused except under the most unusual of circumstances, and the most-reserved of those lists is "used to be a country code, isn't any longer".This is the key part which I hope answers your question Mike? ISO 3166 will simply in realty _NEVER_ reassign a code which has been a country to another country.
Umm... didn't they just do exactly that?
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 This is only the second time since 1974 that a withdrawn code element has been re-assigned to a new country name.