Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] trinational point twins list in progress
Date: Jul 11, 2000 @ 22:46
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>One expected yu's southernmost component to have its own iso
>code. tp had its iso code long before at least some people
>thought perhaps it should; that is what lead me to take for
>granted it that it did as well, alleviating the need for the
>scheme to disambiguate the names and being consistent with
>the neutral idea of deciding a "territory" is something with
>an iso code (which I'm not exactly pushing but its the way
>I was thinking (I actually in my own travels use the TCC
>list which has 331 entries last time I checked, not counting
>tp :-))
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>Since ps has its own iso code, one could neutrally count that
>without making a political statement and promote it from
>"imminent" to "verified" (assuming it is actually verified,
>of course, but its borders at best seem ambiguous to some in
>the first place I imagine)
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>Adding to the confusion is the possibility (likelyhood? again
>without making a political statement) that in the near future
>yu's southern component will in fact have its own iso code,
>and yu as an iso code will go away (irrelevant but a real
>possibility -- it did happen to su iirc) making the whole
>twin tripoint as "unimminent" as iljops is "imminent" (or
>something like that)
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>Confused? You won't be after this episode of _Soap_ :-)
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>--
>randy "the mapsurfer"
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>michael donner wrote:
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>> now you have me completely stumped randy
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>> & i am only guessing at your meaning here
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>> i assume you are saying tp for east timor
>> & that you are questioning the actuality of the bahryu pair mentioned below
>> & also the imminence of the iljops pair or pairs mentioned farther below
>> while perhaps referring to the iso list as a whole
>> whether the one posted as our bottom link
>> <http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/en_listp1.html>
>>http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/en_listp1.html
>> or some other rendition
>> i dont know
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>> & dont understand
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>> but cwould you say more & help me out
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>> >> bahryun & bahryus
>> >> bosnia croatia yugoslavia
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>> >If we have an "imminent" category, need we
>> >an "unimminent" category, or would it be better
>> >to avoid anything that can be misconstrued as
>> >a political view in both cases? Who knows
>> >who wiill be first ... (I'll admit that I
>> >am surprised that there is no ISO code
>> >here; TP has been around for ages)
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>> >> >imminent
>> >> & possibly compound
>> >> >iljopsn & iljopss
>> >> > israel jordan palestine
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>> >--
>> >randy "the mapsurfer"