Everyone interested in the ISO 3166 topic may find an interesting article (better said a copy of an email message, written by Cord Wischhoefer from ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency) at: www.ftp.uni-erlangen.de/cgi-bin/view/pub/doc/ISO/english/ISO-3166-background Cord Wischhoefer explains the genesis of ISO 3166 standard, its parts, reasons why something is done this or that way and gives all answers to many questions which appeared here last few days. I'd recommend anyone willing to discuss more on this matter to view this brilliant text. Regards, Beri .-------. | --+-- | Berislav Todorovic, B.Sc.E.E. | E-mail: BERI at etf.bg.ac.yu | /|\ Hostmaster of the YU TLD | |-(-+-)-| School of Electrical Engineering | Phone: (+381-11) 3221-419 | \|/ Bulevar Revolucije 73 | 3370-106 | --+-- | 11000 Belgrade SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA | Fax: (+381-11) 3248-681 `-------' -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Logged at Tue Sep 15 16:43:54 MET DST 1998 ---------