Message-ID: <m0skzhD-0009NDC@lisse.na> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 21:13:10 +0100 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: NATO Country Codes To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
In message <mailto:0005ftxdfpfn.0001dlrfnvdb@idrc.ca>Ronald Archer writes >I assume your Patron (or at least NATO) is using a corrupted version of the
>International Standards Organization (ISO) two letter country code. I say
>corrupted because some of your codes do not fit the standard:
It is not the ISO code. It is the NATO code, not surprisingly so :-)-O
>
>BE- Belgium
>CA- Canada
>DA- (probably Denmark but should be DK)
>FR- France
>GE- (not listed -- unless it is supposed to be Germany which is DD or DE by
>the code)
GE is Germany>GR- Greece
>IT- Italy
>LU- Luxembourg
>NL- Netherlands
>NO- Norway
>PO- (could be Portugal(PT) or Poland(PL)
Portugal of course. Poland is not just yet a NATO member even if they recently had joint manaeuvres>SP- (could be Spain (ES)
Spain>TU- (could be Turkey (TR)
Spain>UK- (could be United Kingdom(GB)
Indeed.>US- United States
>
>Just goes to prove that International Institutuions should stick to the
>accepted international standards!!! But then the US still has not switched
>to Metric--so what can one say???
No, what it *DOES* prove is that someone working for the US Navy doesn't know this :-)-O
I remember NATO using these abbreviations already for decades when I was conscripted in 1976... Long before anyone was serriously thinking about IS country codes on the Internet :-)-O
el
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