On 28 Sep 2003 17:42:49 GMT, (Huge) wrote:

(Jim Ley) writes:
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:04:55 +0100, "Tim Ward"
wrote:


I'm trying to work out why someone should invent "UKP" in preference to
using the ISO standard "GBP".

Because the ISO are looking to charge for use of such codes, and it's
not worth the risking the licensing costs?

Yeah. Right. Buy better drugs.

Erm, you have seen

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/...003JulSep/0213

etc. and the original announcements, the ISO are considering licence
fees for ISO 4217.

Jim.