Frank Ellermann scripsit: > Debbie Garside wrote: > > > If only it were that simple. > > Okay, apparently I'm alone with the idea that this is only > about LTRU, which will be history soon if all goes well. > > Above the WG level it's either the applications area, or > the complete IETF. What we have here is a failure to communicate. Debbie is speaking of ISO WGs, not IETF WGs. ISO WGs are fairly permanent (they don't expire unless reaped by the parent SubCommittee), and do most of their business in FTF meetings a few times a year (hence the relevance of travel). (The fact that liaisons are accredited to the parent SC is a technicality.) The reason for this is that ISO standards are reviewed every five years to see whether they should be approved as-is, replaced, declared stable, or made obsolete. RFCs on the other hand are always stable by default and are replaced only by explicit action; consequently, IETF WGs are rather transient. So on the level of standardization work, it's hard for the IETF and ISO to liaise, because there is no permanent entity on the IETF side concerned with language tags. On the level of adding code elements to existing standards, the problem is even worse, because the group of people on ietf-languages isn't even part of the IETF as such, so there is nothing for the 639/RA-JAC to liaise with. To make things worse, IETF WGs operate openly and by individuals, ISO WGs confidentially and by countries. It doesn't do Doug that much good to know what's coming down in the ISO WG if he can't talk about it here. "I fear our intellectual differences are an insuperable barrier!" --Tom Stoppard parodying Oscar Wilde -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org The Penguin shall hunt and devour all that is crufty, gnarly and bogacious; all code which wriggles like spaghetti, or is infested with blighting creatures, or is bound by grave and perilous Licences shall it capture. And in capturing shall it replicate, and in replicating shall it document, and in documentation shall it bring freedom, serenity and most cool froodiness to the earth and all who code therein. --Gospel of Tux _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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