Formal request for "French (all periods)"

[John Cowan]

Mark Davis scripsit:

> I think this is premature. We need clarification as to whether codes like
> fra are disjoint with codes like frm and fro first. If they are disjoint,
> then we need to have the policy clearly stated for language codes that do
> not have "Old" alternates. 

In my view, the best way to get an organization to confront the need
for policy clarification is to present them with a concrete proposal
that forces them to *@#$ or get off the pot.  You have, I believe,
made analogous remarks in your other roles.

-- 
John Cowan  cowan at ccil.org  http://ccil.org/~cowan
And now here I was, in a country where a right to say how the country should
be governed was restricted to six persons in each thousand of its population.
For the nine hundred and ninety-four to express dissatisfaction with the
regnant system and propose to change it, would have made the whole six
shudder as one man, it would have been so disloyal, so dishonorable, such
putrid black treason.  --Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee