Re: [Ltru] [psg.com #951] extensibility via codes not maintained by ISO

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>]

Hi -

Ok, I've marked this one "rejected".

Randy, ltru co-chair

> From: "Addison Phillips" <addison.phillips at quest.com>
> To: "Doug Ewell" <dewell at adelphia.net>; "LTRU Working Group" <ltru at ietf.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:43 AM
> Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: [psg.com #951] extensibility via codes not maintainedbyISO
>

> I agree, although I would add to Doug's last sentence thusly:
>
> Variant subtags
> can be registered to capture scripts or regions that are inexplicably
> not covered by ISO 15924, ISO 3166, or UN M.49 and which those standards bodies somehow refuse to consider.
>
> The draft has a preference built into it for language, script, and region codes coming from the relevant maintenance
organizations. Variants are a kind of last resort and mostly for items (dialects, etc.) that are not scripts or regions. Like the
Slovenian dialect variant subtags.
>
> Addison
>
> Addison P. Phillips
> Globalization Architect, Quest Software
> Chair, W3C Internationalization Core Working Group
>
> Internationalization is not a feature.
> It is an architecture.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ltru-bounces at lists.ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces at lists.ietf.org] On
> > Behalf Of Doug Ewell
> > Sent: 2005?5?10? 22:49
> > To: LTRU Working Group
> > Subject: [Ltru] Re: [psg.com #951] extensibility via codes not maintained
> > byISO
> >
> > > Comments 45 and 53 in message
> > > http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg00540.html
> > > raise the question of supporting language, country, and region
> > > codes not maintained by ISO.
> >
> > I propose rejecting this item.
> >
> > Language subtags can be registered in the unlikely event that the
> > various flavors of ISO 639 completely miss a language.  Variant subtags
> > can be registered to capture scripts or regions that are inexplicably
> > not covered by ISO 15924, ISO 3166, or UN M.49.
> >
> > --
> > Doug Ewell
> > Fullerton, California
> > http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
> >
> >
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