REQUEST for registration of variant subtag 'grabar'

[Peter Constable]

From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell

>> I would like to request that the posting privileges of this 
>> participant, who has engaged in an ad-hominem attack on Peter 
>> Constable, be suspended irrevocably.
>
>He didn't post this latest diatribe to the list; he can't.  Peter chose 
>to quote it to the list, as it revealed the true motivation for the 
>request.

A clarification: I quoted a single paragraph from correspondence between JFC and me on the topic of 'grabar'. Michael's mail quoted the 'diatribe'.

Since it has been quoted to the list, I think it will be clear to all I had responded to JFC's inquiry by sticking to policies for both ISO 639 and for RFC 4646, and that JFC himself corroborates what I said: he was not interested in registration of a particular subtag in response to a particular user need, which is the purpose for the IETF-langauges list, but rather was trying to support a claim (baseless, IMO) of inherent problems in the existing relationship between ISO 639, RFC 4646 and the various entities associated with each -- something that is clearly beyond the scope of this list.



Peter Constable