Why does it take so long?

[Mark Davis]

15 is nicer than 16 because 0..15 fits in 4 bits. Not a major issue, but since
it is such a minor change, and because 16 is chosen to have plenty of
discrimination space, it's a good change.

We tried to be careful to produce a grammar that accepted all generated codes
from RFC 3066, plus it grandfathered in all registered codes. So it would be a
complete superset of everything that worked under RFC 3066. It would not allow
in all codes that *could have been registered*, but that is not a problem once
it goes into effect and the registry switches over. If you think that for any
reason we have not accomplished this, please let us know.

Mark
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <harald at alvestrand.no>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis at jtcsv.com>; <aphillips at webmethods.com>;
<ietf-languages at alvestrand.no>
Sent: Thu, 2004 Jan 08 20:48
Subject: Re: Why does it take so long?


> why is 15 a nicer length than 16?
>
> cs1 wouldn't contradict the existing RFC 3066, so changing the new proposal
> to admit it would not change deployed code (my most important reason to
> avoid changes to grammars...)
>
> --On 8. januar 2004 17:30 -0800 Mark Davis <mark.davis at jtcsv.com> wrote:
>
> > Forwarding a comment
> >
> >  Markus Scherer
> >  2004.01.08 17:08
> >    To: Mark Davis/Cupertino/IBM at IBMUS
> >    cc:
> >    From: Markus Scherer/Cupertino/IBM at IBMUS
> >    Subject: Re: Successor to RFC 3066
> >
> > Still suggests "CS1" as a registered region subtag code.
> > This contradicts
> > - the ABNF (2*3 ALPHA) because it contains a digit
> > - the rules in 2.2 which say that region subtags cannot be registered
> >
> > For implementations, it may be nice to restrict the lengths of subtags to
> > 15 instead of 16.
> >
> > Misspelled word "intellible".
> >
> > Mark
> > __________________________________
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> > ? ????????????????????? ?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Addison Phillips [wM]" <aphillips at webmethods.com>
> > To: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <harald at alvestrand.no>; "Mark Davis"
> > <mark.davis at jtcsv.com>; <ietf-languages at alvestrand.no>
> > Sent: Mon, 2004 Jan 05 11:25
> > Subject: RE: Why does it take so long?
> >
> >
> >> I already did that once. I am getting confirmation messages (auto
> >> responses)... so the mail server is at least there. Perhaps it is the
> >> holidays, but some drafts sent after ours have made it to the I-D site.
> >>
> >> I posted the draft-02 to my personal website
> >> (http://www.inter-locale.com/ID/draft-phillips-langtags-02.html) for
> >> those who don't want to wait.
> >>
> >> Addison
> >>
> >> Addison P. Phillips
> >> Director, Globalization Architecture
> >> webMethods | Delivering Global Business Visibility
> >> http://www.webMethods.com
> >> Chair, W3C Internationalization (I18N) Working Group
> >> Chair, W3C-I18N-WG, Web Services Task Force
> >> http://www.w3.org/International
> >>
> >> Internationalization is an architecture.
> >> It is not a feature.
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
> >> > [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no]On Behalf Of Harald Tveit
> >> > Alvestrand
> >> > Sent: lundi 5 janvier 2004 09:54
> >> > To: Mark Davis; ietf-languages at alvestrand.no
> >> > Subject: Re: Why does it take so long?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > this is a bug (ie should not happen). please re-send, saying that you
> >> > did not see it posted after the first submission.
> >> >
> >> >               Harald
> >> >
> >> > --On 5. januar 2004 08:34 -0800 Mark Davis <mark.davis at jtcsv.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > 18 days after submission, and
> >> > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-langtags-phillips-davis-02
> >> > > .txt / .html still hasn't shown up....
> >> > >
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