Randy Presuhn <randy underscore presuhn at mindspring dot com> wrote: > The text that is there in the -08 registry draft says: > > E. UN numeric codes and ISO 3166 alpha-2 codes for countries > or areas listed as eligible for registration in [initial- > registry] but not presently registered MAY be entered into > the IANA registry via the process described in Section 3.4. > Once registered, these codes MAY be used to form language > tags. > > As a technical contributor, I think this is the right thing to do, but > it sounds like Frank and I are having trouble reconciling it with, for > example, Doug's understanding: > "In regard to the general matter of registering UN numeric code > elements for countries and country-like entities (as opposed to macro > regions), I believe they should NOT be eligible for individual > registration, so that they may remain available as the "last resort" > option in case of ISO 3166 code conflicts." The draft is not consistent with itself. Section 2.2.4 (3E), quoted above, says we can register such subtags. Section 3.4 (11), to which I referred, says we may not. > As a thought experiment, work through the "es-419" case using both > approaches. "419" is not pertinent to this discussion. It represents a macrogeographical area, not a country or country-like region. As such, it could not be equivalent to an ISO 3166 code element, and consequently there are no restrictions on registering it. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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