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Re: [Ltru] A radical proposal (was: Re: extlang & deprecation)



> From: ltru-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> John Cowan
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:45 PM


> > I'm sympathetic to this line of reasoning, but I find the analogy for
> things
> > like ar-arb too persuasive to fully agree to the limitation.
>
> Fine, but where do we stop?  The only valid tag for Malay right now is
> 'ms', so that's what people use...

There is a slight difference between the zh case and cases like ms and ar in that for zh we have known, explicit usage of that single ID for what are widely recognized to be distinct languages with separate business relevance. Currently, that's not the case (that I know of) for ar or ms. (Of course, that could change.)


Peter
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