Re: STD (was: Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP)

["Doug Ewell" <dewell at adelphia.net>]

r&d afrac <rd at afrac dot org> wrote:

> - I supported the proposition of an African searcher (they treated of
> troll) to reconcile the desire of a strict ABNF expressed by the WG
> affinity group and the users, R&D and innovation (following ISO
> evolution) support to use the URI-tags RFC in proposing first to use
> the "private use" area. As indicated, a remark shown me it was a
> wrong choice, the private use area also addressing other needs.

Merriam-Webster OnLine defines "affinity group" as "a group of people
having a common interest or goal or acting together for a specific
purpose (as for a chartered tour)."

Exercise for the reader:  Explain why this is a bad thing for an IETF
Working Group.

--
Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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