RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, "stability", and extensions

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Mon Jan 3 19:38:53 CET 2005


> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Bruce Lilly

> > I don't think it's that uncommon to refer to a specification A that
> makes use of another specification B as an application of B.
> 
> Perhaps, but I think it's best to avoid misunderstanding in
> technical discussion by being precise in use of terminology.

I was being precise. Note that ISO 639 uses "application of language identifiers" in exactly the same sense in which I have used "application of RFC 3066".



Peter Constable


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