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Additional descriptions not found in ISO (was: Re: [ltru] Initial language registry draft)



Hi -

> From: <Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com>
> To: <ltru at ietf.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 2:11 PM
> Subject: [ltru] Initial language registry draft
>
> See issue below...  forwarded to the list for comment.
>
> The registration of language name synonyms would definitely be useful to
> me when I reference the RFC 3066 work. Persian/Farsi, Bangla/Bengali,
> Irish/Gaelic/Scots Gaelic, and Catalan/Valencian cause a lot of headaches
> on the language lists I review.
>
> I do realize synonym registration could be controversial. For my purposes,
> Catalan, Balear, and Valencian are synonyms, but I'm sure there's a
> linguist out there who would disagree. I think Ethnologue and SIL are
> working on language synonyms. Could these synonyms be incorporated for the
> languages found in 639-1 and 2? Do you have any thoughts on this Peter?
...

As a co-chair, I need to ask whether you're asking, in the form of a last call
comment, (1) for the addition of a new field to record this information, or
(2) for the addition of this information to the initial registry i-d.  If you are
asking for either or both, I'd like to request that you provide the specific
textual changes you'd like to see in the drafts.

---

As a technical contributor, I agree with Doug's assessment in
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg02663.html
These can be handled by adding "Description" entries as needed
once the registry is "live".

I think discussion (if any should be necessary) of any specific cases
would belong on the ietf-languages at iana.org mailing list rather
than here.   Trying to complete that task here would introduce delay,
and would not offer any more value to users than doing it incrementally
on the ietf-languages at iana.org list.

Randy




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