[Ltru] Collection tags considered problematic (was: "mis" update review request)

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Sat Apr 14 03:25:30 CEST 2007


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

> What is truly unfortunate is that ISO defined these (Other) items by exclusion.

I am pushing for these to be generalized with the exclusions removed - all cases of "Foo (Other)" changed to "Foo languages".


> We can do the latter by deciding, like we do with other unstable ISO codes,
> that the meaning of the tag "ger" is set at the time we add it to the registry,
> and can only be narrowed, not broadened.

I think you mean, "...can only be broadened, not narrowed.


Peter
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