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Subject: RE: [ubl-ndrsc] Fwd: Fwd: ISO 3166-1 -- Change of Alpha-3CodeElem entfor Romania
Hi All Having just returned from a business trip I am pretty amazed at the excitement around country codes. For my sins I am a member of the CDWG which is responsible, amongst other things, for the maintenance of the UN/ECE rendering of the 2 alpha ISO codes from ISO 3166. In the UN/CEFACT world i.e. for international trade in general and global ebusiness in particular, only the 2 alpha code list is recommended. UN/ECE has a formal agreement with ISO to be able to publish this set of codes for free access on the UN/CEFACT web page etc as UN/ECE Recommendation No. 3. Also, as Phil points out, the 2 alpha recommendation 3 forms the first 2 characters of the UN/ECE Recommendation No. 16 codes aka the UNLOCODE. There are other cases around ISO and UN/ECE Roecommended code lists which give rise to similar confusions due mostly to the fact that a) ISO charge for access to their full standards and b) several of these recommendations actually contain more than one code list e.g. REc 21 which has at least three code lists which are related but by no means equivalent. I guess our concern right now is to develop the rules, guidelines and tools requirements that will enable UBL to provide the necessary support for the use of the appropriate code lists from the UN/ECE list for electronic business document exchange purposes. To do so we, or at least some of us, probably need to understand the, not inconsiderable, vagaries of the lists themselves. The UN/ECE REcommendations are not all code lists and even when they are they are not all of interest to us for UBL. The full list can be found easily under 'Recommendations' on the UN/CEFACT home page - http://www.unece.org/cefact/. Each of the code set(s) are preceded by explanatory text which lays out clearly the relationship between the each recommendation and related code lists from other international agencies such as ISO. The list of recommendations that concern us is, I believe: Rec 3 - alpha country codes Rec 5 - Incoterms 2000 (terms of delivery) Rec 7 - Date/time formats based on ISO 8601 Rec 9 - 3 alpha currency codes Rec 16 - the UNLOCODE Rec 17 - Pament terms Rec 19 - modes of transport Rec 20 - Units of measure (only the common codes recommended for ebusiness use) Rec 21(a) - 1 digit code set for type os cargo (for reporting transport statistics to authorities) Rec 21(b) - 2 alpha package type codes Rec 23 - Freight charge codes Rec 24 - Trade and Transport status codes BTW Rec 31 and 32 may be of general interest as they are the latest UN/CEFACT recommendations with regards to ebusiness exchange agreements aspects. regards Sue Sue Probert Senior Director, Document Standards, Commerce One Labs Commerce One Tel: +44 1332 342080 email: sue.probert@commerceone.com
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