[Mageia-discuss] IRC community channels - need a ruling from the board

Tue Oct 5 11:12:13 CEST 2010

On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:48:58 -0400
+Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
+
+> >>
+> >
+> > Using gb for the United Kingdom would possibly be politically
+> > dangerous, which is why UK websites are .co.uk .org.uk etc and
+> > not .co.gb .org.gb etc.
+> >
+> > The full name of our country is the "United Kingdom of Great
+> > Britain &  Northern Ireland" - using the GB code is offensive
+> > to people from Northern Ireland, because Northern Ireland is a
+> > valued part of the United Kingdom but is NOT part of Great
+> > Britain.
+> >
+> > As IRC is an internet service, I suggest we stay with UK for the
+> > United Kingdom (to match our websites) and Ukraine should be UA.
+> >
+> 
+> Hi Margot:
+> 
+> Fortunately for all concerned, the issues with ISO country codes
+> had nothing to do politically, it was by agreement by all.
+> Ireland has its own country code all of its own. ISO agreement
+> are traditionally closely monitored by the UN membership states.
+> 
+> Marc
+> 
+
+Northern Ireland is NOT part of Ireland, it is part of the UK.
+
+I know that Wikipedia is not always a trusted source of
+information, but this page is pretty accurate:
+
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland
+
+-- 
+Margot
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