draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, s pecifications, "stability", and extensions

[Keld Jørn Simonsen]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:08:05PM +0000, Michael Everson wrote:
> At 16:56 +0100 2005-01-06, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> 
> >I would also favour the country code as second field, as it would be
> >backwards compatible with RFC 3066, and also compatible with the order
> >used in locales.
> 
> That would be an example of getting these tags to 
> do more than identify varieties of language.

It was not the intention to use the RFC 3066 bis tags as locale identifiers.
I only listed the concern as to not confuse the public at large with
different rules for similar concepts.

Best regards
Keld