[Ltru] Re: registry should copy non-English fields from ISO documents

[Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de>]

JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:

> we obviously are not here for the fun.

I'm here because I didn't like the "country code" rules and
effects in draft 9 and said so in the "last call".  If I don't
like it but have an idea how to fix it, now is my chance.

Anything else are simply side-effects of this POV, trivial ABNF
quirks, normative vs. informative references, STRONGLY, etc.

> But for the technical, political, economical and societal
> implications every IETF standard and procedure has.

The registry will be essentially a frozen summary of four ISO
standards (3166-1, 639-1/2, scripts), some grandfathered tags,
and some UN numbers where ISO 3166-1 doesn't work as expected.

Plus some simple rules to use these subtags in a combined tag.
Any additional info in the source standards isn't lost only
because it's not copied to the language tag registry.  You're
still free to use the sources as they are, e.g. Bruce's draft
about scripts uses the ISO source.

And you're free to use whatever source you like to find the
French name for Faroe.  The registry is about language tags,
it's no all purpose dictionary.  Descriptions ought to be the
minimal "i-default" text we can get away with, but no headache
for a poor tag reviewer.

If you love headaches, the "default_script" is bad enough, but
unfortunately necessary to address some compatibility issues.

Losing regions under the current rules is also bad, I hope to
discuss this here again _after_ the default script problem was
solved in draft -01.

But for the French name of Faroe I really don't care.  It's no
_technical_ problem for users, implementors, or taggers.  From
your POV it might be important, but solving it for you is no
option, French is only one of many languages, and obviously we
can't put descriptions in many languages in the LTRU registry.

If you want a dictionary of language / script / region names
just create it.  IMHO it's unnecessary, dictionaries already
exist.  Here are two utter dubious Google translations:

http://purl.net/net/en2fr/users.adelphia.net/~dewell/lstreg.html
http://purl.net/net/en2de/users.adelphia.net/~dewell/lstreg.html

                          Bye, Frank



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