Hello Doug, Many thanks for your text proposals, which I have taken up mostly without changes. Regards, Martin. At 23:24 06/07/28, Doug Ewell wrote: >Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft dot com> wrote: > >> One small comment: 639-3 won't make any codes available that would get used as variant subtags. It will make available codes that we expect will get used as extlang subtags. > >Agreed. We will probably want to use "extended language" in the charter instead of the jargony "extlang" with which we are comfortable. > >> I'm guessing the number of additional codes that would get added is around 6,800 (I think there was approx 7200 total in the draft code table of which approx 400 are in 639-2). > >The current Registry has 488 primary language subtags. > >My preliminary mockup of an RFC 3066ter Registry includes 7,194 primary language subtags and 354 extlang subtags, for a total of 7,548, or an increase of 7,060 over the status quo. Note that this does not include any of the ISO 639-3 code elements for sign languages, which will have to be their own topic of discussion, though this may not need to be stated in the brief charter text. > >I also note that the words "tags" and "codes," mostly in the first paragraph, should be changed to "subtags" as appropriate. > >Suggested rewording of the first two paragraphs:: > >----- >The primary language subtags allowed by the current IANA Language Subtag Registry are limited to ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 in the same way as they were limited by RFC 3066. This covers approximately 500 possible language subtags. ISO 639-3, scheduled for approval towards the end of 2006, will make available around 7000 more primary language subtags and extended language subtags. > >The working group will work on an update to the Language Subtag Registry procedures to allow the use of 3-letter codes from ISO 639-3 as primary language subtags or extended language subtags as appropriate. The working group will also deliver means to update the current IANA Language Subtag Registry with the newly available subtags. >----- > >-- >Doug Ewell >Fullerton, California, USA >http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Ltru mailing list >Ltru at ietf.org >https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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