Enforcing ISO-3166-1

[John K. Doyle, Jr.]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Cathy Murphy wrote:

>  This change would mean enforcing ISO 3166 by accepting USA, GB or Brazil,
>  but not accepting U.S.A., UK, or Brasil. An alternate proposal suggests
>  that ARIN anticipate common mistakes such as embedded punctuation,
>  misspellings and incorrect codes.

Cathy - enforcing the standard in the database is obviously a good idea. A
friendly user interface that corrects for obvious and common errors is an
equally good idea. Is there any reason that the two should be mutually
exclusive?

John