Reminder: ISO 639-3 changes are coming

[Doug Ewell]

This is just a reminder -- inspired by a false-alarm WatchThatPage 
message I got today -- that ISO 639-3/RA will be reviewing the 2009 
batch of change requests through December 15, and will issue a report, 
probably in January, listing all the changes they have approved.

This will be the first time that the annual round of ISO 639-3 changes 
will directly affect the IANA Language Subtag Registry.  In past years, 
as part of the effort to keep draft-4645bis up to date, I kept track of 
these changes myself.  Now, they will be a full part of the 
ietf-languages change control process.  Each 639-3 change that affects 
the Registry will require its own proposed record and registration form, 
posted to this list for a two-week review period, and will have to be 
submitted individually to IANA.  This is the process outlined in RFC 
5646 and approved by the IETF and IESG.

Last year the RA approved 150 changes; the year before, 383.  This year, 
there are 143 pending change requests to be considered.  That does not 
mean the RA will necessarily approve them all, or that each approved 
request will map 1-to-1 with a change in the Registry, but it would not 
be unrealistic to assume 100 or more changes.

I just want to make sure that everyone is aware this workload is coming, 
probably about two months from now, and that we don't treat it as some 
sort of sudden, unexpected anomaly and propose ad-hoc rule changes to 
work around it.  It is the way of our future, once a year.

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Doug Ewell  |  Thornton, Colorado, USA  |  http://www.ewellic.org
RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14  |  ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s ­