Abstract
Abstract : The use of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) Standardization Agreement 1059-Letter Codes for Geographical Entities offers a common agreement of a two-digit character string to identify world countries (e.g., US=United States, GB=United Kingdom). In April 2003, NATO released STANAG 1059 (8th Edition), which effectively updated these country codes to a three-digit entity so that further definition of country provinces could be provided within these attributes. For example, the new code for the US includes identifiers for individual states and commonwealth areas such as the code US-MS' representing United States - Mississippi.' Although many might welcome the expansion of this code as an enhancement of the information, some users of legacy software and database systems with source code structured to the two-digit code may view it differently.
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