[Ltru] Changes to draft-4645bis resulting from new draft-4646bis

["Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>]

I've combed through draft-4646bis-17 looking for changes that would 
affect draft-4645bis.

As a reminder, draft-4645bis-05 was submitted to the RFC Editor on May 8 
(referencing draft-4646bis-13), and I have an editor's copy of 
draft-4645bis-06 dated June 21 on my Web site that references 
draft-4646bis-15.  (Sorry about the number soup here; I couldn't think 
of a better way to explain this without using a table.) 
Draft-4645bis-06 will be edited to reflect the changes described here 
before being submitted.

The changes I've found are as follows:

1.  For each Description field that occurs in two or more non-deprecated 
subtags of the same type, we need to change at least one to eliminate 
the duplication.  I will send proposed changes to both the 
ietf-languages and LTRU lists, and will take any feedback into account 
when revising the draft.

2.  For each record containing Description fields that differ only in 
stylistic usage of apostrophes, hyphens, and so forth (such as Ge'ez and 
Geʻez), we need to pick one and discard the rest.  I will send the 
relevant records to both mailing lists, ask for a rough consensus as to 
the preferred rendering, and ask the Reviewer to make the final 
decision, taking any list feedback into account.

Issues that we still haven't resolved include:

3.  whether to change the list of languages that have extlangs 
(currently ar, kok, ms, sgn, sw, uz, zh), and if we do change it, what 
explanation to provide for the choice in draft-4645bis

4.  whether extlangs can have Suppress-Script (question asked by Addison 
with special attention to the Arabic extlangs)

I would hope that we can resolve these remaining questions with at least 
as much analytical effort and energy as we devoted to the largely 
theoretical question of arranging multiple prefixless variants within a 
tag.

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Doug Ewell  *  Thornton, Colorado, USA  *  RFC 4645  *  UTN #14
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