

Hello:

We have received requests for the delegation of the FX country code.

However, the IANA is very concerned that these pseudo country codes of
the form "<some-letter>X" are based on a very flawed logical and
practical basis.

The IANA expressed these concerns through the US national representive
(NISO) to the ISO 3166 committee.

It is difficult to escape the conclusion that this is a very special
strange and unwarranted arrangement for exactly one purpose: to satisfy
some odd uniquely French desire.

This request may be pending for some time.

--jon.



