Harald Alvestrand scripsit: > At the time, it seemed obvious to me that references to a > standards-track specification were intended to be "this one or any > version that obsoletes it"; it was only later that I discovered that > there could be multiple differences of opinion on this even in cases > that seemed obvious to me. Well, yes, except that BCP 47 isn't standards-track. > If YAM decides that it's ready to go to Standard status, I really don't > see any need except for formalism and nitpicking to revise the document > at all. IMHO, the syntax of Content-Language should be tightened to require proper 4646/4646bis language tag syntax, and the laxer syntaxes should be moved to obs-* productions. -- John Cowan cowan at ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold: "Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one." English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."
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