draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications,
"stability", and extensions
John Cowan
jcowan at reutershealth.com
Thu Jan 6 21:28:33 CET 2005
John C Klensin scripsit:
> Content-language: <3066-tag>
> X-Extended-Content-language: <new-tag>
This reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what the draft does
compared to what RFC 3066 does. It imposes *more* restraints on language
tags, not fewer. The RFC 3066 language tag registration process can
register tags with almost unpredictable meaning once one gets past the
first subtag. The draft *limits* the possible tags to a small subset,
and tightens up the allowable semantics. It allows no tag to be used
that was not already registerable under RFC 3066.
In RFC 3066, it is only a heuristic (or examination of the IANA registry,
which is not machine-parseable) that tells the meaning of the second
subtag the existing registered tag sr-Latn. In the draft, its meaning
is unambiguously specified a priori.
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