Thanks Jaap! Agreed that clear, precise and consistent terminology should be used in both the WT5 outputs and the next iteration of the AGB. Sent from my iPhone
On 5 Sep 2018, at 13:36, Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap@NLnetLabs.nl> wrote:
A quick scan of the working document shows rather inconsistent use of ISO 3166 related terms.
Quite some of these uses stem from citing the AGB. There is not a lot to do about that, we should not change history too much. But for the current document we could do better I hope.
Often one reads things like "codes listed in the ISO 3166-2 standard". What really is meant here is "codes listed in the standard ISO 3166 Part 2". What makes this important is that people are confusing the -2 suffix with the length of the code. We should be more careful in using proper terminology and if one wants to use "3166-1" as a shortcut for "ISO 3166 Part 2" it should somewhere be explained.
An example of unclear use is a sentence like:
"meaningful representations of a country or territory name on the ISO 3166-2 standard"
What is really meant here? Country and territory names appear in ISO 3166 Part one, ISO 3166 Part 2 talks about subdivisions only. (It might be quoted from an old AGB so can't be changed, but it is still confusing),
Something like "ISO 3166 3-letter codes, country subdivisions (3166 Alpha-2)" becomes quite confusing very fast. in general ISO talks about alpha-3 etc. codes and 3166 Part 1 had alpha-2 and alpha-3 codes. ISO 3166 Part 2 is about codes for subdivision codes. These codes are not related to the alpha-3 codes of Part 1 but consist of alpha-2 codes from part 1 followed by "up to 3 characters".
The working document talks about alpha-3 or 2 codes, 2/3 characters, and 2/3 letter codes etc. Most times they seem to be used denoting the same but I'm not always when non-ASCII codes are involved.
I know, it is hard to be consistent it the terminology but it is worth the effort.
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