Why are there different sizes of country codes used in the Releaseability Caveat indicator?
Country information within JTIMS is derived from two separate sources, FIPS 10-4, Countries, Dependencies, Areas Of Special Sovereignty, And Their Principal Administrative Divisions, and ISO 3166-1, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes (ISO 3166-1:1997). There also been carefully selected additions made to the library of geopolitical and similar entities to the list; e.g., NATO. The list of countries and their two-character codes are derived from FIPS 10-4 while the three-character codes are derived from ISO3166-1.As with any two standards, there are areas where the two standards do not overlap. In those cases where the two standards clearly overlay, you will see a three-character code used by the releaseability caveat ? e.g., for information releasable to Canada you will see RELCAN. In those cases where there is no overlap, a two-character to five-character code has been assigned based upon the name of the entity. While thes
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