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D.M. Pick gives me a more accurate distillation of his `uk' explanation :-)

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Barry Warsaw 1998-12-29 02:52:11 +00:00
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@ -281,10 +281,13 @@ nameorgs = {
"int": "international",
# This isn't in the same class as those above, but is included here
# because `uk' is the common practice country code for the United Kingdom.
# AFAICT, the official `gb' code is routinely ignored! David Pick
# <D.M.Pick@qmw.ac.uk> tells me that `uk' was long in use before ISO3166,
# but in reverse order (e.g. uk.ac.qmc) and this was just carried over
# into the New World of the Internet.
# AFAICT, the official `gb' code is routinely ignored!
#
# <D.M.Pick@qmw.ac.uk> tells me that `uk' was long in use before ISO3166
# was adopted for top-level DNS zone names (although in the reverse order
# like uk.ac.qmw) and was carried forward (with the reversal) to avoid a
# large-scale renaming process as the UK switched from their old `Coloured
# Book' protocols over X.25 to Internet protocols over IP.
#
# See <url:http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-159.html#222123>
"uk": "United Kingdom (common practice)",