[Ltru] Re: ISO 3166 alpha-2 (was ISO 3166-2...)

["Doug Ewell" <dewell at adelphia.com>]

I am only responding to this because it was directed at me.

r&d afrac <rd at afrac dot org> wrote:

> At 06:12 04/11/2005, Doug Ewell wrote:
> > The use of .uk instead of .gb as a country-code top-level domain
> > (which I assume is what "e-mail/webtag" is supposed to mean) was a
> > notable error.  All other countries that have an ISO 3166-1 code
> > element use it as their ccTLD.  (.com and .org and such are
> > "generic" top-level domains, or gTLDs.)
>
> I documented why/how we made that "error". And that I do not want to
> repeat it with RFC 3066 bis.

Your post and mine crossed in the mail.  I don't wish to belabor this. 
ISO 3166 does not exist to mirror ccTLDs.

> BTW may I ask you how you catalog ".cat". I note that the consensus
> of the WG-ltru has been NOT to consider the DNS as concerned by the
> langtags.

What is ".cat" and how would one be expected to catalog it?  Does it 
have something to do with identifying languages?

The consensus of the WG has been that ccTLDs are one use of ISO 3166-1 
alpha-2 code elements, and language tags are another, and that is the 
only relationship between the two.

> May I ask in which capacity you are commenting decisions by the
> British sovereign Government? This is is the WG-ltru, so I suppose
> your mail is relevant and is an illustration of the world you want us
> to live in under RFC 3066 bis under constraints, managed by an
> unprecise group of experts.

Marion made a set of statements about UK and GB, and an unrelated 
statement about ISO 3166-2, and asked whether we supported a particular 
change to ISO 3166-1.  I replied that I did not, and gave my reasons. 
That is the capacity in which I make my comments, as an individual with 
a right to free speech.

In any case, I don't see what this has to do with the British 
government, since if they had wanted UK badly enough I am sure they 
would have made this desire abundantly known to ISO 3166/MA.

Your accusation that I wish to remake the world in some nefarious way 
and force everyone else to live by my rules is as far out of line as 
ever.  We are talking about a coding system for identifying the language 
of computerized content.  Stop treating it like it's a declaration of 
war.

> Question: is the "only the larger island" meant to exclude the Isles
> of Wight, the Hebridies, the Orkneys, the Shetlands, Rockall, etc.
> and the claim they may still have on Corsica?

Don't ask me.  I'm not the one who keeps insisting that GB stands for 
something other than the entire United Kingdom.

--
Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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