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Subject: RE: [emergency] Groups - EDIT of emergency-CAPv-1.1
On September 30, [2003] (incidentally, 10 days after they issued a statement
about considering charging royalties for use of their codes) ISO issued the
following statements concerning "recently publicized misunderstandings of
its current practice and intentions regarding its widely used country,
currency, and language codes.
* ISO is to continue with its established practice of allowing
free-of-charge use of its country, currency, and language codes from,
respectively, the ISO 3166, ISO 4217, and ISO 639 standards, in commercial
and other applications.
* There is no proposal currently being considered by ISO to impose
charges for use of these codes, including on the World Wide Web and in
software applications."
The rest of the codes we use in GJXDM (including ANSI D20 and FIPS) are free
to use. ISO was the only one in question. The statement above solves that.
As long as codes from FIPS, ANSI, and ISO that we can FIND (sometimes that's
a problem) are used, then there is no cause for concern for the GJXDM. This
group will need to decide how it uses which code tables.
Paul S. Embley
Practitioner Resource Group
G&H International Services, Inc.
502.695.7733 (office)
502.545.0127 (cell)
502.695.0055 (fax)
pembley@ghinternational.com