Language Subtag Registration -- "wpsimple"

Phillips, Addison addison at lab126.com
Fri Oct 30 17:06:03 CET 2015


Wikimedia != "everywhere on the internet" ?

Even the name 'wpsimple' suggests a vendor-specific subtag. I question whether that is suitable for encoding as a result. Would we accept (for example) 'ibmsimple'?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On
> Behalf Of Michael Everson
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 8:31 AM
> To: ietflang IETF Languages Discussion
> Cc: amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il
> Subject: Re: Language Subtag Registration -- "wpsimple"
> 
> What do you suggest? A private-use tag to be used everywhere on the
> internet?
> 
> > On 30 Oct 2015, at 11:22, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think that generalization would not be helpful. Once you do that, then
> foo-wpsimple becomes available for anybody to use with absolutely no
> convention as to what "wpsimple" is supposed to mean, making it basically
> useless except in a private context.
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On
> Behalf Of Michael Everson
> > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 6:07 AM
> > To: ietflang IETF Languages Discussion <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> > Cc: amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il
> > Subject: Re: Language Subtag Registration -- "wpsimple"
> >
> > On 30 Oct 2015, at 01:54, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> We should have variant subtags that refer to a particular variety. I don't
> mind if that variety happens to be one associated with a particular
> organization or application, so long as it has potential utility beyond that
> organization or application.
> >
> > I have already said that wpsimple would be extensible to other Wikimedia
> Foundation variants.
> >
> > Michael
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