@[email protected] to Lemmy [email protected] • 2 months agoItch drama is getting reallemmy.mlmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1850
arrow-up1850imageItch drama is getting reallemmy.ml@[email protected] to Lemmy [email protected] • 2 months agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 months agoBut why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 months agoHalf grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent. ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.
But why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.
Half grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent.
ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.