<div dir="ltr">Hi Jaap,<div><br></div><div>ISO 3166-2 focuses on codes for country subdivisions, and it also encompasses 'Country names'. The RIPE NCC website, however, does not reference ISO 3166-2 explicitly; it only mentions ISO 3166. This suggests that they utilize a subset of ISO 3166, which likely includes parts 1, 2, and 3 of the standard.<br><br>I have also asked the RIPE NCC staff, they only mention that RIPE NCC has implemented the ISO 3166.<br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_luh9ff270" alt="CleanShot 2024-04-02 at 02.04.27@2x.png" width="562" height="110"><br></div><div><br></div><div>ref: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2</a></div><div><br></div><div>My apologies if I did not clearly explain before.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Tsung-Yi Yu</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 1:36 AM Jaap Akkerhuis <<a href="mailto:jaap@nlnetlabs.nl" target="_blank">jaap@nlnetlabs.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> SteveYi Yo writes:<br>
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> You might wonder why TAIWAN is labeled as PROVINCE OF CHINA<br>
> in ISO 3166-2.<br>
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Note that ISO 3165-2 is NOT aboot country names but about "Country<br>
subdivision code", to quote the tttle of the ISO 3166 standard Part 2.<br>
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Also, the list of List of Country Codes and RIRs on the ripe site<br>
doesn't mention 3166-2. So why do you refer to this? It doesn;t<br>
seem to make sense.<br>
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jaap<br>
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