On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 09:44:41PM +0000, 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.
--
Luca Filipozzi
http://www.crowdrise.com/SupportDebian
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature