Proposal to remove Preferred-Value field for region YU in LTRU

Phillips, Addison addison at amazon.com
Sat Feb 28 17:56:28 CET 2009


It is always possible to add a comment.

As for the issue of countries that separate, there is no reason that I can see to address it further in any draft, past or future, of BCP 47. When new countries are formed, they are always formed from all or part of an old region (even Antarctica has a code). UN M.49 and ISO 3166-1 assign any new regions codes, which we use as subtags. There are quite detailed and clear rules in the current RFC for how this is to be done.

The P-V pointer is mainly useful for regions when a region changes its name (and associated code) but not its borders or “identity”. This *is* what happened when the then Yugoslavia changed its identity, hence the P-V. But since CS is defunct and since YU itself had a “larger” meaning (which is more familiar than the later meaning and is not part of remote history), it seems reasonable to make it revert to its older meaning by removing the P-V. Tag canonicalization will not suffer as a result, which is reasonable.

Addison

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Lab126

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.

From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of CE Whitehead
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 7:36 AM
To: ietf-languages at iana.org
Subject: Proposal to remove Preferred-Value field for region YU in LTRU


Hi.  Considering the current rule, which Doug has reminded of, that we need to have a subtag's preferred value point to whatever it points to points to,
instead of forcing readers/implementations to follow a chain, at this point I support removing the preferred-value and adding a comment as soon as it becomes possible to add a comment.
Tex Texin textexin at xencraft.com <mailto:ietf-languages at alvestrand.no?Subject=Proposal%20to%20remove%20Preferred-Value%20field%20for%20region%20YU%20in%20LTRU&In-Reply-To=3D93119FB2F84366B464232A9BC52C9C at DGBP7M81>
Fri Feb 27 21:55:22 CET 2009


> 8) Separate topic- The number of countries in the world seems to grow. This suggests to me that regions being subdivided is not going to be a rare event. Perhaps there should be a mechanism to indicate subtags that have later been split, so instead of one preferred value, there is a way to indicate that a tag has been deprecated in favor of two or more possible values.

However, I do think Tex's point is good here; the issue of countries that separate should be addressed in the next draft of RFC 4646, but I agree we cannot address this at this time.

Hopefully a comment will be sufficient for the interim.

--C. E. Whitehead

cewcathar at hotmail.com<mailto:cewcathar at hotmail.com>

> tex


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