Re: SV: montenegro now mj & serbia rb but yikes what was this yi

my guess is a combination of local politics at turtle
bay 
on top of the embarrassing fact that all the really
good & mnemonic digraphs are unavailable because they
are already in use or reserved

--- Jesper Nielsen/Borderbase <jesper-bACkHVQ/[email protected]>
wrote:

> Why is ISO anyway taking so long?
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> Sendt: 12. september 2006 04:37
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> Emne: Re: [BoundaryPoint] montenegro now mj & serbia
> rb but yikes what was
> this yi
> 
> 
> 
> These new FIPS codes aren't necessarily what the ISO
> will eventually 
> assign to Montenegro and to Serbia (separately). In
> fact, RB is 
> "indeterminately reserved" in the ISO by both
> Bolivia and Botswana. 
> Serbia and Montenegro (together) were officially CS
> per ISO, never YI. 
> Of course, one might choose to use the FIPS codes
> until the ISO speaks.
> 
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@yahoo.
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> To: <boundarypoint@
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> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 7:59 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] montenegro now mj & serbia
> rb but yikes what 
> was this yi
> 
> > last item here seems to have quietly answered our
> > prayers months ago
> > http://earth-
>
<http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/fips/FIPS10-4CN-11-d.pdf#search=%22rb%20
> mj%20serbia%20montenegro%22>
>
info.nga.mil/gns/html/fips/FIPS10-4CN-11-d.pdf#search=%22rb%20mj%20serbia%20
> montenegro%22
> > tho what we had been calling cs all this time was
> in
> > the end evidently not cs but rather yi
> >
> > but anyway you may want to take note of the
> following
> > 9 additions & corrections to the world class
> > based on this new mj for montenegro & this new rb
> for
> > serbia
> > & or even try uttering them for the first time
> > 1 add almjrb
> > 2 add bamjrb
> > 3 change alcsmk to almkrb
> > 4 change bacshrn to bahrrb
> > 5 change bacshrs to bahrmj
> > 6 change bgcsmk to bgmkrb
> > 7 change bgcsro to bgrbro
> > 8 change cshrhu to hrhurb
> > 9 change cshuro to hurbro
> >
> > & as i recall
> > no one correctly predicted the winning digraphs
> >
> > so we will just be doubling the pool for the next
> heat
> > at turtle bay
> >
> >
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