> From: Phillips, Addison [mailto:addison at amazon.com] > > A possible concern is that "Preferred-Value" is not only used in > > canonicalization *for matching purposes*, but it is also what > > people SHOULD be using to tag all their content and interchange: as > > the opening sentence of 4.5 says, > > I agree that this applies. But I think it is important that we > establish a general trend in tag choice. Multiple choices in language > tags are bad news. OK, so you're saying we need to move the trend in tag choice either toward everyone tagging things as "zh-cmn"/"zh-yue"/etc., or toward everyone tagging things as "cmn"/"yue"/etc. We've got different opinions on which way this should go. Some here *strongly* favour the former; I've got some people telling me they *strongly* favour the latter. How will we reach a consensus? The main intent of what I've proposed is to say that we don't push one over the other. (Kind of like Latin precomposed/decomposed representations in Unicode: the Standard doesn't try to push either over the other.) > > Again, the main concern I'm trying to address anticipated > > difficulty in agreeing on whether content should get tagged "zh- > > cmn" or "cmn". > > > > If the solution were obvious, we'd have been done months ago. The > current compromise is that both camps are "satisfied" (you can use both > forms), but one form is less preferred going forward. Most important, > we describe what results to expect and what issues arise from a user's > tag choices. Well, are both camps "satisfied"? We're not just saying you can use both forms; we'd be saying, "You can use either, but we really want you to use this one." Peter _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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