NEW-MODIFY LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION for "Ethi"

[Randy Presuhn]

Hi -

> From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell at adelphia.net>
> To: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:58 PM
> Subject: Re: NEW-MODIFY LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION for "Ethi"
...
> If everyone would state their preference for this specific case, along 
> with a brief explanation of *why* it is your preference -- even if you 
> have already made this clear in the general case -- we should be able to 
> determine a list-wide consensus.  My preference is for items B and C (in 
> that order); that is, changing the existing description to match the 
> underlying ISO standard, discarding the original as irrelevant, and 
> adding the ASCII fallback for ease in typing and searching.
...

We shouldn't be talking about the order because the order is not significant.
If this list wants the order to be significant, then that question should be
taken up by the ltru WG for future revision of the registry specification.

Randy