The International Code of Area Nomenclature remains to be unratified and only aims to be the national nomenclature for areas of endemism used in contemporary biogeography.
The International Code of Area Nomenclature (ICAN) was proposed by a group of few biogeographers to provide a universal naming system or nomenclature for areas of endemism used in contemporary biogeography. 
The ICAN was ratified by the Systematic and Evolutionary Biogeographical Association (SEBA) in Paris in the only meeting of the group, during July 2007. 
