On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:23:48 +0800, Bil wrote:



But IALA A and IALA B are the result of the world getting together and
agreeing!

I undertand that IALA B, now used only by the US, its territories, and
its client states in Asia, was the original proposal. But the
Europeans were slow to understand the import of a unified marker
system. So they failed to support it. And then came IALA A and the
current mess.

As I understand it, IALA is a committee of government committees -
since they agreed that an international standard for such an important
safety item would be a good idea, they decided that _two_ standards
would be better. :-)

IALA system B is used in all of North and South America and the
Caribbean, and in Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, according to a
map in a Canadian Coast Guard publication on Aids to Navigation.



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