LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: "audio"

[Addison Phillips]

I oppose this registration.

What next? en-video? fr-cinema? de-flash?

Content format is not the same as language variation. The language used 
in recordings (i.e. live speech) is often distinct in some ways from the 
written form of a language, but I think it unnecessary to try to 
indicate this using this mechanism.

Addison

Doug Ewell wrote:
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
> 1. Name of requester:  Doug Ewell
> 2. E-mail address of requester:  dewell at adelphia.net
> 3. Record Requested:
> 
>   Type:  variant
>   Subtag:  audio
>   Description:  Audio content
>   Prefix:
>   Preferred-Value:
>   Deprecated:
>   Suppress-Script:
>   Comments:
> 
> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
>   For recordings of spoken or sung material.
> 
> 5. Reference to published description
>   of the language (book or article):
> 6. Any other relevant information:
> 
>   This subtag is intended for explicit identification of unwritten   
> linguistic content, such as sound recordings.  Like other subtags,
>   it should be used only when necessary to prevent confusion or
>   misidentification.
> 
>   It is specifically not intended that additional "modality" subtags
>   be registered with "audio" as a Prefix, e.g. to distinguish content
>   that is sung, shouted, or whispered.
> 
> -- 
> Doug Ewell  *  Fullerton, California, USA  *  RFC 4645  *  UTN #14
> http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
> http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html
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-- 
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.