[OSM-talk] ANNOUNCE: talk-gb

[raphael Jacquot]

Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> The letters 'gb' are in fact the ISO country code for 'United Kingdom'
> (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) weirdly enough, not for 'Great
> Britain'
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists
> /list-en1.html#sz

then why the hell do the gb use .uk as their tld ??

> So talk-gb actually is correct, and will include Northern Ireland, as

the fact that the brits have illegally invaded northern ireland is a 
whole different issue :D

> I'm sure SteveC knew when he set it up. 
> It does still exclude the Isle of Man though, which has its own ISO
> designation, of 'im'