Sorry, I hit Send prematurely. Mark Davis wrote:
I think it should be a MUST. A SHOULD implies that you don't need to do it if there are good / reasonable reasons not to. That isn't the case here; the requirements are clear.That doesn't prevent us from taking the request and making fixes to format, spelling, etc before approving.
I think it comes down to how much deviation is acceptable. RFC 4646bis is a long document with some rather arcane rules, and it is likely that at least one very sensible subtag request will come along on ietf-languages that doesn't conform completely to the RFC. The question is whether such a request will be rejected summarily, or sent back to the requestor with instructions to fix the errors, or whether the deviations are of such a nature that ietf-languages and the Reviewer can figure out what is meant and (with approval of the requestor) correct them as necessary. Debbie Garside and I had a useful discussion about this 2 years ago; see http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2007-January/005719.html .
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