BCP47 Appeals process

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Thu Sep 18 00:29:12 CEST 2008


From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Yury Tarasievich

>> The problem is, there's lots of language versions that could be tagged
>> as academy or academic...

> I find this unconvincing.

> Such reasoning effectively forbids about every meaningful and
> short description of language variant/lingual norm etc.

Precisely the point.

> Lots of those were codified in academies, and lots of those are
> distinguishable only by year-stamp

Not at all: the identities of the distinct academies can and should be part of the basis for differentiation.



Peter


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