RE: [Ltru] Charter update proposal (updated)

["Debbie Garside" <debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk>]

Addison wrote:

> "These additional code elements are intended to provide 
> coverage for all known human languages in use today."

+1

Debbie 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Addison Phillips [mailto:addison at yahoo-inc.com] 
> Sent: 04 August 2006 19:33
> To: John Cowan
> Cc: Debbie Garside; ltru at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Ltru] Charter update proposal (updated)
> 
>  >
>  > I think this comment misses the significance of the word 
> "coverage".
>  > There are indeed disputes about whether the 639-3 codes 
> match up  > one-for-one with the world's languages.  But 
> nevertheless, for every  > variety of language, there is a 
> 639-3 code that describes it, if less  > precisely than some 
> would prefer.  This is not the case in 639-2, except  > 
> insofar as every language might be brought under some 
> collective-language  > code element or other.
> 
> The easiest way out of this conundrum would be:
> 
> "These additional code elements are intended to provide 
> coverage for all known human languages in use today."
> 
> This covers the reason why without addressing whether the 
> effort has been a success or not.
> 
> Addison
> --
> Addison Phillips
> Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
> 
> Internationalization is an architecture.
> It is not a feature.



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