Hi - > Comment registry-cowan-04 in message > http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg00607.html > reads: > Proposal registry-cowan-04: Specify case rules for canonical tags > > CURRENT: Canonicalizing a tag does not affect the case of the letters > in it. > > PROPOSED: Canonicalizing a tag adjusts the case of the letters as > follows: > > 1) The first letter of a script subtag is upper case; 2) Both > letters of an alpha region subtag are upper case; 3) All other > letters are lower case. > > RATIONALE: These are the de facto canonicalization rules for ISO 639, > ISO 3166, and ISO 15924 codes. Since we have not had canonical tags > before, there is no previous practice to contradict. The requirement > for case-insensitive matching may be eliminated if all tags being > matched > are known to be canonical. There was some discussion of this proposal, but it wasn't clear (to me at least) whether there was agreement at the end. Consequently, I haven't closed this item. Would we be content to wrap this this up as a "reject", or does it need further discussion? Randy, ltru co-chair _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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