Kerry Raymond wrote:
>>I rather suspect that the lack of a standardized format or of a definition
>>in the GED standards suggests that the issue is not one of importance to
>>many people in the US. And GED was a child of the US and of the LDS
>>Church.

> Having spent a decade or so doing IT standards in ISO and other
> organisations, it might be the exact opposite -- too many people thought it
> was important but they all wanted something different and no consensus could
> be reached.

> Can you imagine getting any group of people to agree on the "complete list
> of religions/occupations/whatever)" in order to assign codes to them? Before
> you know it, you'd have the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker,
> closely followed by the sausage maker, the meat smoker, the organic butcher,
> the kosher butcher, the halil butcher, the vegetarian butcher, the vegan
> butcher, the organic vegetarian butcher, the free range organic vegetarian
> kosher butcher, ...

> Kerry