Re: [geolang-comment] First proposals for ISO 639 and 3166 available

[Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>]

* John Cowan
| 
| What principles should be employed to decide whether to use scoped
| names or occurrences in this case?  

Basically whether the strings in question are human-oriented names or
labels for the subjects[1]. In my opinion these strings are clearly
occurrences rather than names. The country at the south tip of Africa
has names like 'South Africa' and 'Afrique du Sud', but not like 'ZA',
'ZAF', or '710'. 

[1] <URL: http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0329.htm#base-name >

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ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC        <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >