Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang

["Broome, Karen" <Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com>]

Yikes, if I implied that, my apologies. I don't want that at all. I don't want any hierarchies that aren't already baked into the ISO standards.

Karen

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kent Karlsson [mailto:kent.karlsson14 at comhem.se]
>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:08 AM
>To: Broome, Karen; ltru at ietf.org
>Subject: RE: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang
>
>
>Broome, Karen wrote:
>> I thought the primary goal was identification, not fallback.
>> Without extlang, we lose some information the ISO standards
>> otherwise contain.
>
>You seem to be arguing for (in an ideal case) a partial
>language family hierarcy in each tag. Tags like
>
>gem-de (or gem-deu)
>
>or even
>
>und-ine-gem-de-gsw
>
>and the like. Of course that is not possible to introduce, for
>several reasons. I'm just trying to understand your argument.
>As Mark mentioned, the individual language codes do identify
>a language, without explicitly giving any part of the
>hierarchy in the tag.
>
>        /kent k
>


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