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

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

On onsdag, jul 23, 2003, at 23:29 Europe/Stockholm, Michael StJohns 
wrote:

> At 16:58 7/23/2003, Patrik Fältström wrote:
>
> > 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 This is only the second time since 1974 that a withdrawn code element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.
Duhh....sorry. Can not explain I didn't get this from your earlier 
mail. I also completely missed this when I read and re-read and 
re-re-read their text.

Yes, having .cs reassigned IF there was any DNS servers for it would 
have been problematic.

  paf