>
> Strongly -1 for me. While it may be a good idea to avoid
> registrations
> of 4-digits subtags, because of the risk of collision and the risk
> that the first one to register 1901 will deprive the others, I do
> not
> think it should be written down in the RFC. 4646bis is already too
> long and too detailed on some points.
+1
>
> A related reason for suppressing this paragraph is because 4-digits
> subtags are just a subset of "generic" subtags ("northern" or
> "academy" being another common examples) and we should not
> legislate for just a part of the generic subtags.
I don't agree. Historically, year subtags have not been generic. Attempts to genericize them (and, by extension, all variants) are downright dangerous and, I think, wrongheaded.
>
> Such restrictions should belong to an "ietf-languages policy"
> (which,
> as John Cowan is fond of mentioning, already exists, even if it is
> currently unwritten).
>
Indeed.
Addison
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