LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM (R3): pinyin
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Thu Sep 4 00:13:39 CEST 2008
On 3 Sep 2008, at 19:58, Phillips, Addison wrote:
> In particular, Michael can decide to approve or not approve a given
> registration request. He (or others) may propose a modified request
> for his approval during the “two week discussion period”, but he can
> only approve or disapprove of the mooted request. He *may* decide it
> based on “rough consensus” (the usual IETF policy), but he *may*
> also reject it based on even a single compelling opinion (which may
> be his own opinion, so long as it is clearly expressed on the list).
> There is an appeals process for cases in which people feel that
> Michael has been capricious in approving or rejecting an item.
I'm pleased to note that in the 11 years I have served as reviewer we
have never seen an appeal.
> FWIW, I prefer having both ‘zh’ and ‘zh-Latn’ as prefix fields. I
> don’t see any objection to approving these items, just to the final
> record form.
>
> I also note: if ‘zh’ is given as a prefix now, ‘zh-latn’ can be
> added later. The converse is *also* true.
Well if that is the case, why not both now?
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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