Montenegrin

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Tue Oct 23 23:01:35 CEST 2007


IMO, we should not look for ISO to rush to make a change merely based on precedent.

A language distinction didn't just suddenly pop into existence on Oct. 22. There are plenty of existing records and ICT implementations that assume no distinction; dealing with that in the face of a suddenly-posited distinction will be difficult, and having an artificial or minimally-significant distinction would only make that harder. So far, there has been no formal request to the JAC; only an email inquiry from another standardizer -- and he also observes that it appears to be no more than another name for an already-encoded language.

IMO, the JAC should consider it when it receives a formally-submitted request with some evaluation of the issues involved, and not rush off to do something spontaneously.


Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: Debbie Garside [mailto:debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:19 AM
To: Peter Constable; ietf-languages at iana.org
Subject: RE: Montenegrin

But on precedent... :-)

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> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of
> Peter Constable
> Sent: 23 October 2007 15:18
> To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: RE: Montenegrin
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> In technical terms, I cannot see any merits.
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>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Debbie Garside
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 1:30 AM
> To: dewell at roadrunner.com; ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: RE: Montenegrin
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> It is under discussion.
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> Best regards
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> Debbie
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> Doug Ewell
> > Sent: 21 October 2007 20:27
> > To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> > Subject: Montenegrin
> >
> > Quote from the front page of Wikipedia:  "The Parliament of
> Montenegro
> > adopts a new Constitution proclaiming Montenegrin the official
> > language, rather than Serbian."
> >
> > I suppose this means a new ISO 639 code element will be on its way
> > soon.
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