On 19:29 03/07/2005, Addison Phillips said:
What, pray tell, has this got to do with language tags?
This is clear enough. The US Statement changes the nature of the IANA from a global reference center into a national reference center, like AFRAC will be one and most probably each country will soon experiment one. This is not because an RFC says this or that, or because ietf-languages will adopt a langtag or not, that it will translate into these Registries. This will be because the reference centers intergovernance will adhere to your proposition or to a registration.
1. obviously there is work ahead to get this reference centers operational. My fear was that you would create additional confusion before the ISO Varsaw meeting and the USA would announce their new strategy. And this way you would delay our effort. 2. now if you want langtags to be supported by the Internet Registry System, you will have to convince us, not only the IESG.
To convince us (whatever the way this intergovernance will formed in coming months) you will have IMHO to demonstrate:
1. your project is not contentious. This means that its Registry is controled in a way acceptable to all. The rule which will prevail is subsidiarity: the one who is concerned is the one who decides: experts advise, locals decide. A good transition rule is that Registries using ISO 3166 or/and ISO 639 codes (a) becomes part of the name and numbers ICANN reserved area (RFC 2860) and be under GAC final control (b) to impose them to harmonize with ISO 11179 and with the results on distributed CRCs experimentation.
2. your project is to be a network project. This means that it should be consistent in every relational layers and core services - including DNS, OPES, etc. I explained what it means as far as AFRAC is concerned. 1. the langtag identifies a relational channel protocol. This means that it defines a protocol permitting person to person interintelligibility. 2. this means that a dysimetrical receiving (concepts)/sending(values) ends negotiation using language, mode and cultural environment (what documents the protocol), referent (what refers to the channel) and context (what refers to the relations) elements. 3. anyone can register any non conflicting form of langtag in any format. The need is for end to end/person to person relation establishment/authentication. Formats, like yours, can stabilise or even aquire a defacto leadership or monopoly if they are adequate to usage.
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