Hi Jaap, ISO 3166-2 focuses on codes for country subdivisions, and it also encompasses 'Country names'. The RIPE NCC website, however, does not reference ISO 3166-2 explicitly; it only mentions ISO 3166. This suggests that they utilize a subset of ISO 3166, which likely includes parts 1, 2, and 3 of the standard. I have also asked the RIPE NCC staff, they only mention that RIPE NCC has implemented the ISO 3166. [image: CleanShot 2024-04-02 at 02.04.27@2x.png] ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2 My apologies if I did not clearly explain before. Thank you. Best, Tsung-Yi Yu On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 1:36 AM Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
SteveYi Yo writes:
You might wonder why TAIWAN is labeled as PROVINCE OF CHINA in ISO 3166-2.
Note that ISO 3165-2 is NOT aboot country names but about "Country subdivision code", to quote the tttle of the ISO 3166 standard Part 2.
Also, the list of List of Country Codes and RIRs on the ripe site doesn't mention 3166-2. So why do you refer to this? It doesn;t seem to make sense.
jaap
