A proposed solution for descriptions

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Wed Jun 21 16:17:36 CEST 2006


At 15:06 +0100 2006-06-21, I wrote:

>But we have to fix the 639 and the 3166 problems too, and that will 
>be later and not now, because for some incomprehensible reason you 
>consider the spellings they have to be NORMATIVE rather than 
>INFORMATIVE.

And to respond to myself, it is the code elements in all of these 
sister standards which is normative, not the text which describes the 
entity represented by the code elements.
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com


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