Country names

Country Names

Issue	GCMD	ICES/IOC	ISO (ISO Former)	NODC	WOD	WWW
No. of States	N/A	198	244 (29)	200	141	249
Coding Schema	None; names of geographic locations in hierarchical fashion, in these major categories: CONTINENTS REGIONS OCEANS SOLID EARTH SPACE VERTICAL LOCATION	Sequential numbers to 99, followed by 2-letter codes	A two-letter code which is recommended as the general purpose code, a three-letter code which has better mnenomic properties and a numeric-3 code which can be useful if script independence of the codes is important. The two-letter codes are considered here.	Very similar to ICES/IOC	Very similar to ICES/IOC and NODC, but omits many landlocked states	2-letter codes, almost identical to ISO
Code Re-Cycling	N/A	N/A	ISO code deprecation practices moving from ISO3166-1 to 3166-3 need to be documented (3166-1 2-byte code replaced by a 3166-3 4-byte code then the 2-byte code is recycled e.g. CS Czechoslovakia to Serbia and Montenegro to �available for reuse�)."	N/A	N/A	N/A
Content Governance	Standard GCMD	BODC-served list, taken from the ICES web site. ICES had assumed governance from IODE GETADE until Harry Dooley relinquished RNODC-Formats. Since then it has been formally ungoverned. Unclear whether it is systematically maintained now.	Very formal procedures described for each ISO number	Internal/Informal	Internal/informal	Formal procedures under the W3C?