From c0ef565cdf385db38db6dc9ad6f7f77a86f2c523 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Barry Warsaw Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 02:52:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] D.M. Pick gives me a more accurate distillation of his `uk' explanation :-) --- Tools/world/world | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Tools/world/world b/Tools/world/world index 581d585d22..6b9132b7b5 100755 --- a/Tools/world/world +++ b/Tools/world/world @@ -281,10 +281,13 @@ nameorgs = { "int": "international", # This isn't in the same class as those above, but is included here # because `uk' is the common practice country code for the United Kingdom. - # AFAICT, the official `gb' code is routinely ignored! David Pick - # tells me that `uk' was long in use before ISO3166, - # but in reverse order (e.g. uk.ac.qmc) and this was just carried over - # into the New World of the Internet. + # AFAICT, the official `gb' code is routinely ignored! + # + # tells me that `uk' was long in use before ISO3166 + # was adopted for top-level DNS zone names (although in the reverse order + # like uk.ac.qmw) and was carried forward (with the reversal) to avoid a + # large-scale renaming process as the UK switched from their old `Coloured + # Book' protocols over X.25 to Internet protocols over IP. # # See "uk": "United Kingdom (common practice)", -- 2.40.0