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	Revision 124 . . December 20, 2001 10:43 pm by SJK [moving detailed information on [[ISO 3166]] to that article]
	Revision 123 . . December 20, 2001 8:42 pm by SJK
	Revision 122 . . December 20, 2001 8:41 pm by SJK [tried to separate out most of the ISO 3166 and Internet ccTLD specific information]
	Revision 121 . . (edit) December 20, 2001 8:01 pm by Zundark [refer to Top-level_domain for further info]
	Revision 120 . . December 20, 2001 7:18 pm by Zundark [some ccTLD stuff removed, for incorporation into top-level domain article]
	Revision 119 . . December 20, 2001 7:17 pm by Zundark
	Revision 118 . . (edit) December 20, 2001 6:16 pm by The Epopt
	Revision 117 . . (edit) December 20, 2001 6:04 pm by Zundark [fix Neutral Zone link]
	Revision 116 . . (edit) December 20, 2001 6:01 pm by Zundark [Urugay -> Uruguay]
	Revision 115 . . (edit) December 20, 2001 5:57 pm by Zundark [Acension -> Ascension]
	Revision 114 . . (edit) December 20, 2001 5:50 pm by Zundark [remove stray "Both"]
	Revision 113 . . (edit) December 20, 2001 5:44 pm by Zundark [fix Åland link]
	Revision 112 . . December 20, 2001 2:57 pm by SJK [correction: 1949 Road Traffic Convention, not 1948]
	Revision 111 . . December 20, 2001 2:55 pm by SJK [added reserved alpha-3 codes]
	Revision 110 . . December 20, 2001 2:38 pm by SJK [added alpha-2 reserved code elements]
	Revision 109 . . (edit) December 17, 2001 10:26 pm by Zundark [remove excessive ISO_3166 links]
	Revision 108 . . (edit) December 17, 2001 9:11 am by (logged).253.64.xxx
	Revision 107 . . (edit) December 15, 2001 10:40 pm by Zundark [remove duplicated link]
	Revision 106 . . November 18, 2001 1:48 am by The Anome [-> FIPS codes]

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The developers of ISO 3166 intended that in time it would replace other coding systems in existence. It is used as the basis for many other standards, including ISO 4217 currency codes, [International Bank Account Numbers]?, the [ISO 6166]? International securities identification numbering (ISIN) system, [ISO 7372]?, [ISO 9375]?, the ISO/IEC 7501-1 machine readable travel documents standard, UN/LOCODE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Recommendation 16, for encoding names of ports), and WIPO standard ST.3 (for encoding country which issued a patent or trademark).

The developers of ISO 3166 intended that in time it would replace other coding systems in existence. It is used as the basis for many other standards, in areas such as currency codes, bank account numbers, securities numbers and location coding.