Adding variant subtag 'erzgeb' for Erzgebirgisch (was: Requests that have been on hold)

Phillips, Addison addison at amazon.com
Thu Aug 27 15:30:12 CEST 2009


I agree with Doug. A clarified or corrected request can always be resubmitted.

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Lab126

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:20 AM
> To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> Subject: Re: Adding variant subtag 'erzgeb' for Erzgebirgisch (was:
> Requests that have been on hold)
> 
> There seems to be no progress whatsoever on deciding what prefix
> should
> be assigned to the proposed variant subtag 'erzgeb' for
> Erzgebirgisch.
> Most of the discussions earlier this month seemed to hinge on the
> notion
> of "changing" the prefix if more information becomes available in
> the
> future (which change is not allowed), or of using the collection
> code
> 'gem' as the prefix, as if it were a macrolanguage (which would be
> inappropriate, since collections are not macrolanguages).
> 
> Unless Thomas Goldammer and the rest of the list can decide on a
> single
> Prefix field in the next few days, I suggest the Reviewer reject
> this
> request as premature, with the proviso that it can be reintroduced
> at
> any time, now that the new Registry is in place and all of the
> proposed
> Prefix fields are available.
> 
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