that's right ISO3166-2, +1
2008/11/16 Guido Barosio <gbarosio@gmail.com>:
> +1 on ISO 3166-2
>
> gb.-
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Selena Deckelmann
> <selenamarie@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Emanuel CALVO FRANCO
>> <postgres.arg@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> From here on out, non-country pugs will have to have at least 3
>>>> characters in their abbreviation!
>>>>
>>>
>>> so, will be rename ArgPug?
>>
>> If we follow ISO 3166-2, it would be 'arpug'.
>>
>>>> I'll handle the issue with BWPUG (ISO 3166-2 assigns BW to Botswana),
>>>> if/when it comes up.
>>>>
>>>> I still like having the messy naming for the rest of the groups.
>>>> There's no one standard that's going to address regional, state,
>>>> province and municipality all at once.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's a hard work... i think every country must have a general pug,
>>> then each must allow local groups.
>>
>> It's not necessary to have a PUG for every country.
>>
>> We are just going to reserve the two-letter prefixes for country codes
>> from now on.
>>
>> We will continue to have language-specific lists, which are not
>> exclusive to a single country.
>>
>> -selena
>>
>> --
>> Selena Deckelmann
>> PDXPUG - http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx
>> Me - http://www.chesnok.com/daily
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>
-- Emanuel Calvo Franco Syscope Postgresql DBA BaPUG / AOSUG Member