Re: [Ltru] Last open item

[John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>]

Randy Presuhn scripsit:

> I think the heart of the problem here is attempting to blindly
> adopt changes originating from the source standards.  Doing so works
> counter to one of our key goals, that of ensuring a reasonable level of
> stability.    What happened with BU -> MM is in my opinion an example
> of what we'd like to avoid, so if we're twiddling the procedures, we
> should do so in a way which makes such cases less likely, not more so.

Stability in the preferred value isn't the sort of stability that we
can either expect or preserve, particularly in ISO 3166 code elements.
What we can and do stabilize is the meaning of subtags: if a source
standard attempts to assign a code element to a different meaning than
it once had, we provide a replacement subtag instead of reusing that
code element.

Countries will go on changing their names, and 3166/MA (in accordance
with its mandate) will change their codes accordingly; in order not to
get out of sync with the rest of the code-using world, we need to track
those changes insofar as possible.

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