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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:29:11 +0200
To: "Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com>,
	"LTRU Working Group" <ltru@ietf.org>
From: r&d afrac <rd@afrac.org>
Subject: RE: [Ltru] additional changes...
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At 19:03 24/06/2005, Peter Constable wrote:
> > From: r&d afrac [mailto:rd@afrac.org]
> > My point is that the Draft could easily be made conformant to ISO
>11179
>
>No, you miss my point: if ISO 11179 does not define conformance
>requirements, it is impossible to say "conforms to ISO 11179".

I will not dispute with you on this. There is no procedure to declare a 
registry or a model conforms to ISO 11179. As there is no procedure to 
declare that a text is in French or English.

There is a decision by an author to write a text in French or in English. 
There is an obvious decision by the authors of the Draft not to write in 
"ISO 11179", there is a declare non-desire for ISO 639-3 and a declare 
desire by the authors of ISO 639-6.

> > So, you fully make my point in saying "I don't think anyone can say
>that
> > the langtag is or isn't conformant".
> >
> > - the Charter asks we make sure that the Draft conforms the underlying
>ISO
> > standard, so if you don't know you should work on it.
>
>ISO 11179 is not and never has been considered one of the "underlying
>ISO standards" for RFC 3066(bis).

This is something you will have to document when someone of the IESG cast a 
glance to ISO 639-4 and ISO 639-6. Because ISO 11179 is what permits to 
corelate ISO 3166, 639, 15924 .... and to address stability over changes.

Take care and have a nice WE.
jfc


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