Proposed new subtags, when the time comes

[Doug Ewell]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand dot no> wrote:

> q: could you perhaps title the additions to the registry as LANGUAGE
> SUBTAG ADDITION and the modification as LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION?
>
> When both are titled ADDITION, I get confused easily (which is a
> danger always...)

I can do that... BUT... I did exactly what the draft said.  There is no 
mention in Section 3.3, or elsewhere in the draft, of the title text 
LANGUAGE SUBTAG ADDITION.

On the other hand, figure 4 is billed as just "an example of what the 
body of the message might contain," so perhaps there is nothing "out of 
spec" in calling the additions ADDITION and the modifications 
MODIFICATION.

You see, there was some value after all in posting this page to make 
sure I understood the process.  :-)

Another possible source of confusion in the title might be the word 
LANGUAGE.  What if we are adding a variant?  There is already a Type 
field, so presumably the information that this is a variant would go in 
the Type field, and the record would still say LANGUAGE SUBTAG ADDITION 
to indicate that this record to intended for the Language Subtag 
Registry, not some other repository.  But that would probably look 
really silly.  Is this title text intended to be flexible, or to always 
say LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION as shown in Figure 4?

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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/