Re: [Ltru] 3.1.4: description field uniqueness

["Mark Davis" <mark.davis at icu-project.org>]

I disagree with this change. The descriptions need to be unique within the type of field. We can always qualify the names, eg "Ainu (China)".

Mark

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Phillips, Addison <addison at amazon.com> wrote:

(technical hat)

I agree... but this was done on purpose (the purpose of which appears later in the paragraph).

(editor hat)

I removed the overall uniqueness requirement, narrowing it to within a record and focusing on formatting variations.

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<t>The field 'Description' contains a description of the tag or subtag in the record. The 'Description' field MAY appear more than once per record, that is, there can be multiple descriptions for a given record. The 'Description' field MAY include the full range of Unicode characters. At least one of the 'Description' fields MUST be written or transcribed into the Latin script; additional 'Description' fields MAY also include descriptions in non-Latin scripts. Each 'Description' field SHOULD be unique within the record in which it appears and formatting variations of the same description SHOULD NOT occur in that specific record. For example, while the ISO 639-1 code 'fy' contains both the descriptions "Western Frisian" and "Frisian, Western", only one of these descriptions appears in the registry.</t>
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Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Lab126

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ltru-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces at ietf.org] On
> Behalf Of John Cowan
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 10:01 PM
> To: Peter Constable
> Cc: LTRU Working Group
> Subject: Re: [Ltru] 3.1.4: description field uniqueness
>

> Peter Constable scripsit:
>
> > Each 'Description' field MUST be unique within a given record.
> Also,
> > each 'Description' field must be unique across the collection of
> > records of the same type with the following exception: if a
> particular
> > 'Description' field occurs in multiple records of a given type,
> then
> > one of those records MUST be for a subtag listed in all the other
> > records as Preferred-Value.
>
> I'd rather just abandon the restriction altogether and leave it up
> to
> the common sense of ietf-languages.
>
> --
> John Cowan    http://ccil.org/~cowan    cowan at ccil.org
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