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

John Cowan jcowan at reutershealth.com
Wed Jan 5 22:02:31 CET 2005


Bruce Lilly scripsit:

> I believe that John meant sect. 2.5 of RFC 3066, which does indeed
> mention a matching algorithm.

Yes.

> However, the proposed changes in the
> structure of tags interact badly with that algorithm.

It just makes the algorithm imperfect; however, it was imperfect before as well.

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