[ubl-comment] Re: ebXML CPA/CPP Estimate,or did you know that Greenland is part of North America?

["William J. Kammerer" <wkammerer@novannet.com>]

James R. McKee, of the IMF,  wrote:

   "...international standard code lists such as ISO
   3166 country codes are not definitively complete
   and need to be extensible in business applications.
   To this point, the ISO 3166 country codes are not
   sufficiently complete for international collections
   of macroeconomic statistics as they do not include
   any regional definitions (e.g., Europe, Africa, etc)
   or political or economic associations (e.g., OPEC,
   NAFTA, etc.) and ISO has rejected any attempts to
   include such on the reasonable grounds that there
   are no generally recognized criteria for words like
   Europe or Africa (e.g., Some place Turkey and Egypt
   in the Near East.) Yet in our IT systems we need
   codes for these concepts along side 'country' codes."
(http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl-comment/200111/msg00010.html)

Mr. McKee must have missed my classic "Re: Core Components docs for
review - and did you know that Greenland is part of North America?," at
http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-core/200012/msg00042.html.  I say:

   The UNSD's section on Geographical regions, at
   http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/methods/m49regin.htm,
   breaks out the countries according to geographical
   area: Composition of macro geographical (continental)
   regions and component geographical regions, using
   the ISO 3166 3-digit numeric codes, which the UNSD
   develops and maintains.

William J. Kammerer
Novannet, LLC.