RFC3066bis: looking ahead

[Debbie Garside]

If you read my message again... you will note I made no reference to ISO
639-6... This coding system will be ready this year and will be put to the
ISO Working group (from BSI) as the proposal for ISO 639-6... I personally
see no reason why it will not be adopted... but that is for the committee...

As to implementation issues... I would welcome your thoughts and comments on
an alpha4 system...

Debbie

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
[mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no]On Behalf Of Peter
Constable
Sent: 21 January 2004 17:48
To: ietf-languages at alvestrand.no
Subject: RE: RFC3066bis: looking ahead


Debbie:

> or you could just wait and use the alpha4 coding system of over 25,000
> languages and sublanguages proposed by Linguasphere ICT (ready this
year).
> This system gives all languages, sub-languages/dialects their own
alpha4
> code :-)) and the system will be concatenated with scripts, ISO 639
1/2/3
> and countries.

ISO 639-6 is not even an approved work item, but you're already assuming
it will get incorporated into some future version of RFC 3066. This
seems premature: the suggestion appears to be made in the absence of
adequate consideration of implementation issues, of which there are
several.

Nobody here knows yet what ISO 639-6 will be like (even assuming anyone
can be certain such a standard will eventually be published), so it is
impossible for anyone to evaluate at this point how it would integrate
with a successor to RFC 3066. One can't even say exactly what all the
implementation issues are that would need to be considered!


Peter

Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division

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