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

[Bruce Lilly]

>  Date: 2005-01-05 10:33
>  From: ned.freed at mrochek.com

> > Section 2.5 (2.4.1 in the draft) states the matching rule in a succinct
> > fashion.  Everything in 2.4.2 is a non-normative elaboration of this.
> 
> ??? Which in no way refutes my assertion that no matching rule algorithm
> was given in RFC 3066!

I believe that John meant sect. 2.5 of RFC 3066, which does indeed
mention a matching algorithm.  However, the proposed changes in the
structure of tags interact badly with that algorithm.