LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION - GB

[Erik van der Poel]

Do people view this operation as a kind of "splitting" of GB into GB, 
GG, IM and JE? Or do people generally think of this as the addition of 
GG, IM and JE? If many think of this as a split, and an organization or 
individual wanted to follow these splits over time, would they have to 
go to ISO (or subscribe to their newsletter)? It would be nice if people 
didn't have to go to ISO, since that is the very organization that we 
have said is too unstable for our purposes.

Erik

Doug Ewell wrote:
> In case there is any confusion about what the proposed change is:
> 
> It is a request to add a "Comments" field to the existing region subtag 
> record for GB.  No other addition or change is proposed here.
> 
> The existing record looks like this:
> 
> Type: region
> Subtag: GB
> Description: United Kingdom
> Added: 2005-10-16
> 
> The record would be changed to look like this:
> 
> Type: region
> Subtag: GB
> Description: United Kingdom
> Comments: see also GG, IM, JE
> Added: 2005-10-16
> 
> Note that the Added date is not changed (as of course it cannot be).
> 
> I should also state that, although I ghost-wrote the proposal for Debbie 
> to help with the mechanics, I'm fairly neutral on whether it should be 
> approved or not.  To me the annotation is completely harmless, but 
> probably not essential in order to use the registry.  We should keep in 
> mind that the registry is not a general-purpose reference to countries 
> and their dependencies; although this one request does not go nearly 
> that far, we need to be careful not to let such annotations get out of 
> hand.
> 
> -- 
> Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California, USA
> http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
> 
> 
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