BCP47 Appeals process

[Yury Tarasievich]

David Starner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Yury Tarasievich
> <yury.tarasievich at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
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>> It's only the *sub*-tag, it has *no* meaning
>> per se, without its main tag.
>>     
>
> That's wrong; if this tag gets registered, -akadem or whatever will
> mean the Belarusian Academic orthography. de-akadem will be absurd but
> legal, meaning the Belarusian academic orthography of German.
>   
Now *that*'s wrong. The word "akadem" doesn't *mean* anything, per se; 
one'd have to introduce an explanation of it somewhere else. Given the 
existence of such explanation, there is no sensible reason to try to 
"tell the whole story in 8 letters or less" instead of going with the 
identifier which's descriptive, unique and understandable by native 
speakers, and which would be explained as well.

What *native speakers* want is Cyrillic, not Latin transliterations 
(which they tend to use in un-systematic manner, anyway); but at least, 
they tend to know some of the English and so will understand the 
reference to the "(word) academy in English orthography".

Now, I'd like somebody to confirm the notion of subtags having an 
indepent scope of reference in the registry. People keep referring to 
the Need of some universal accomodations for the rather unlikely (or 
rare) events -- like of some national academy issuing the standard for 
some other national language. Seems not so sensible to me, but possibly 
it's In The Rules (or in the interpretations)?

-Yury