Re: .lv? (was: RE: mathematics)

> John:
> > I am leaning here on http://www.ltn.lv/~podnieks/gt5.html,
>
> What's "lv"? Latvia? I ask because it is, of course, Livagia
> in the world in which Livagia exists. I don't know what Latvia
> is. Hmm. If "lt" is (I guess) Lithuania, then that only really
> leaves "lv" for Latvia, so Livagia would have to be "li" or
> "lg", unless Latvia were "la" or Lithuania were "li" or "ln".
> Who was it that decided these 2-letter country codes? Is there
> a list of them somewhere? Were they first established before
> the break-up of the Soviet Union (which would mean that
> Livagia would have been assigned "lv" before Latvia became
> independent)?
>
> --And.
I quote from one of many lists of the 2-letter country codes the part l?:

LA   Laos
LB   Lebanon
LC   Saint Lucia
LI   Liechtenstein
LK   Sri Lanka
LR   Liberia
LS   Lesotho
LT   Lithuania
LU   Luxembourg
LV   Latvia
LY   Libya

(This list from:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/country-codes.txt )

The codes are long since standardized in the financial sector (ISO 3166);
and are (in connection with the Internet) set up by IANA and published in
RFC 1700 ( http://deesse.univ-lemans.fr:8003/Connected/RFC/1700/index.html )

(Quote from RFC1700):

Newsletter III-17 1992-06-15
  LATVIA added (LV, LVA, 428)

// Mikael Johansson