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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:28:04 +0200
To: "Debbie Garside" <debbie@ictmarketing.co.uk>,
	"'Addison Phillips'" <addison.phillips@quest.com>,
	"'Randy Presuhn'" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>,
	Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
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Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: ABNF beautification...Last Call question
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At 00:45 29/07/2005, Debbie Garside wrote:
>Hi All
>Just to clarify, does the beautified ABNF mean that should 639-6 come to
>pass it needs to wait for ter before it can be used or can it be used in
>bis?  If the latter then I am happy if not then I could be unhappy; given
>the time it has taken to get bis to this stage!

I am not good at ABNF. But I rose a Last Call point that language subtags 
are treated equal from 2 to 8 alphanums (what permits to ensure reasonable 
compatibility with every ISO and non ISO standard the IETF or the Internet 
Community ad-hoc entities would adopt). If this is not the case I rise 
another Last Call point, and if the Last Call is finished, this would be a 
new exclusion point to be addressed in their turn by IETF, IESG, IAB, IANA 
and GAC with appeal to WTO. But by that time everything will be ruled 
discussed on the UN Internet Governance Forum.

So, I am not sure you can deduce anything from the current status of 
"numerobis" (cf. Asterix & Cleopatre). I suppose that ISO 639-6 will be for 
long in use in various network protocols before the current Draft is 
enforced by the IANA... This however depends on its authors.

I know some would love to make ISO 639-6 depend on this Draft and on its 
"consensus" that Randy and Martin will probably announce anytime soon 
(under their co-Chair responsibility). This is a mistake.
BTW I wait for the information I asked you.
jfc


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