UK != GB
Somewhere in another universe, someone noticed that many developers have
assigned country code “UK” in LDAP:
$ ldapsearch -x c=uk | grep -c ^uid:
114
But, RFC 4519, §2.2 reads: “The 'c' ('countryName' in X.500) attribute
type contains a two-letter ISO 3166 [ISO3166] country code.”
The two-letter ISO 3166 country code for United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland is, somewhat confusingly, “GB”, not “UK”.
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Re: UK != GB
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 10:19:44PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
Somewhere in another universe, someone noticed that many developers
have assigned country code “UK” in LDAP:
$ ldapsearch -x c=uk | grep -c ^uid:
114
But, RFC 4519, §2.2 reads: “The 'c' ('countryName' in X.500)
attribute type contains a two-letter ISO 3166 [ISO3166] country
code.”
The two-letter ISO 3166 country code for United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland is, somewhat confusingly, “GB”, not
“UK”.
Given the disconnect between the userdir-ldap-cgi permitted values (GB) and the
LDAP actual values (UK) and given the RFC specification for 'c', I intend to
mass update 'c=uk' to 'c=gb' in LDAP, shortly.
Complaints are best directed to the IETF and the ISO. For your protesting
convenience, the IETF are currently meeting in London UK^WGB.
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Re: UK != GB
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 09:44:41PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 10:19:44PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
Somewhere in another universe, someone noticed that many developers
have assigned country code “UK” in LDAP:
$ ldapsearch -x c=uk | grep -c ^uid:
114
But, RFC 4519, §2.2 reads: “The 'c' ('countryName' in X.500)
attribute type contains a two-letter ISO 3166 [ISO3166] country
code.”
The two-letter ISO 3166 country code for United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland is, somewhat confusingly, “GB”, not
“UK”.
Given the disconnect between the userdir-ldap-cgi permitted values (GB) and
the
LDAP actual values (UK) and given the RFC specification for 'c', I intend to
mass update 'c=uk' to 'c=gb' in LDAP, shortly.
Complaints are best directed to the IETF and the ISO. For your protesting
convenience, the IETF are currently meeting in London UK^WGB.
Done. Should have immediate effect in db.debian.org search.
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