Reminder: ISO 639-3 changes are coming

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Sat Nov 14 10:27:00 CET 2009


I was looking through some of the change requests, and was thrilled at what I saw: a process of refinement in understanding of the world's languages with input from a variety of sources and all publicly documented. I'm sure it's not unlike what has long happened with Ethnologue, though I wonder if standardization in ISO 639 hasn't increased public awareness of the catalogue (e.g., the Mong input seems to have been arisen because of ISO 639-3), and there wasn't a mechanism with Ethnologue to publicly document input. And a lot of the input is providing great documentation.

This is wonderful! Thanks for all you've done on this.


Peter


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Thank you, Doug, for preparing the way by sending this reminder. I am using the occasion to invite participants in this list to comment on any pending request, by sending your comment to iso639-3 at sil.org<mailto:iso639-3 at sil.org>, so that they may be included in the public records for the relevant change requests.  Please include the change request number in the subject line of the message. All the requests are listed at http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_requests.asp
I see no problem with also copying any comment to this list, if appropriate, though I leave the guidance on that to the list moderators. Certainly a few of the change requests have already been topics of discussion on this list in the past.

Thank you in advance for your input.

Joan Spanne
ISO 639-3/RA
SIL International
7500 W Camp Wisdom Rd
Dallas, TX 75236
ISO639-3 at sil.org<mailto:ISO639-3 at sil.org>

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Reminder: ISO 639-3 changes are coming







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.

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

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