Item rejected by ISO 639 JAC

[Michael Everson]

At 17:53 -0700 2004-09-21, Michael-Forest wrote:
>Might I enquire in what ways Jèrriais failed to meet ISO 639-2 criteria,

I am not a voting member of the committee that 
makes the decisions, but I assume it is because 
it was judged that Jèrriais was a dialect of 
French.

>and also where I would go to propose a code 
>under RFC 3066 (and where I can find out more 
>about RFC 3066 codes)?

These are extensions to language codes for 
exactly the purpose of distinguishing dialects. 
See 
http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso639/iana-lang-assignments.html 
for a list of current assignments. I have cc:d 
the discussion list for the RFC; I am not sure 
how you subscribe to it.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com