Re: [Ltru] AD review of draft-ietf-ltru-4645bis-10.txt

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "Alexey Melnikov" <alexey.melnikov at isode.com>
> To: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp>; "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>
> Cc: "Mark Davis" <mark at macchiato.com>; "Chris Newman" <Chris.Newman at sun.com>; "Addison Phillips" <addison at inter-locale.com>; "Doug
Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>; "Lisa Dusseault" <lisa.dusseault at messagingarchitects.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 4:28 PM
> Subject: Re: AD review of draft-ietf-ltru-4645bis-10.txt
>
> On a somewhat related note: please excuse my ignorance, but what is the
> relationship between ISO639-3 and the updated IANA registry for language
> tags?

693-3 was one of the sources of codes used to form subtags in the
"bulk update" 4645bis.

> On <http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/changes.asp> I read:
>
>  An updated version of the code set will be released once each year, and
> all changes since the inception of the code will be reported on this page.
>
> Who is going to keep the two registries in sync and is this desirable at
> all?

This happens on ietf-languages at iana.org, as a function of the language
subtag reviewer.  See 4646bis section 3.4 (12) (B) and surrounding material.
BTW, these sections show some of the long-standing tension in the work between
the desire for stability and for maintaining alignment.

Randy