Re: [Ltru] Registration Forms; have we made it clear which are archived

[Addison Phillips <addison at yahoo-inc.com>]

Doug Ewell wrote:
>  or the need to formally
> reconfirm the Reviewer when 4646bis is published 
 > (which we never did for 4646 or 3066).

Actually, that's not true. There was "reconfirmation" (prehaps that is 
too strong a word) of Michael as the reviewer at least in the 3066->4646 
changeover.

> 
> I don't see a problem with saying:
> 
> 1.  There are two types of subtags, those that come from individual 
> requests and those that come from ISO or UN standards.  You can tell 
> which are which from the syntax; you don't even need to look at the 
> Registry.

This point is superfluous, as we'll see in a second.

> 
> 2.  New subtags and changes that come into being from individual 
> requests have registration forms; those that come from ISO or UN 
> standards do not.
There are two types of *registration*. There are registrations required 
by rule and there are registrations by request. The latter includes a 
process for registering changes to ISO-assigned codes, which has 
actually been used. These changes appear in the archive. Registrations 
by rule do not.

> 
>> Good point: should we relax the restriction on the LSR sending them as 
>> a batch to IANA?
> 
> Speaking as the one who prepares things for Michael to send to IANA, and 
> occasionally the one who sends them, I don't support this.  Surprised? 
> While it might be a good idea and save us some work, it would be a 
> non-trivial change in procedure, and now that we're in WG Last Call I 
> think the pain and delay of debating such a change is greater than the 
> potential benefit.  Look how much we argued over whether IANA could be 
> trusted to put UTF-8 characters into the Registry correctly.
> 

Hmm... I don't think it would be that big a change. In fact, it is 
limited to a single sentence in Section 3.3, which currently reads:

--
Each individual subtag affected by a change MUST be sent to the 
ietf-languages list with its own registration form and in a separate 
message.
--

... to which we would add:

--
Additions of new records MAY be batched together for submission to IANA 
as a set.
--

Addison

-- 
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.
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