Hi, <br><br>1.Peter,<br>I think option B is our only option, <br>Evaluate any option solely on non-political criteria (existence of a variant/a community; and need to encode the distinction for applications)<br>and make sure the names/descriptions are in no way politically offensive to any of the parties concerned.<br><br>2.<br>As far as whether we should consider this request now or wait till we hear on a third variant,<br>I think we can ask about third variants but otherwise go ahead and register the variants here once we are happy with the resources/description provided <br><br>--C. E. Whitehead<br>cewcathar@yahoo.com<br>{new email address}<br><br><b><i>Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
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<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"> <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> <div class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><br><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Perhaps this is a good opportunity to raise a policy question for this list: I think we’d agree that we don’t want this list to be involved in political issues or be a forum for political debate. So, what’s the best policy for this list when we get requests for subtags that have associated political issues?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:
11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="">a)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Reject any request with political issues to ensure this list avoids politics?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="">b)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Evaluate any request solely on non-political criteria? (We would still need to ensure that subtags are non-offensive.)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="">c)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt;
line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Try to judge on a case-by-case basis what is the best way to walk through the political minefield?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Option (a) would mean we reject a request such as be-tarask, per policy, as soon as it becomes clear that there are political issues around the distinction being made.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73,
125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Option (b) would mean that for a request such as be-tarask we simply evaluate whether the proposed distinction can be useful for some user community (regardless of their politics), is dividing at a reasonable point (e.g., is 1933 the threshold date, or 1959, or are there two separate divisions?), and that the form of the proposed subtag isn’t offensive to any community (e.g. “narkamauka” would not be acceptable as the basis for the form of a subtag). I think it would mean we specifically do *<b>not</b>* do what Gerard may be suggesting for the be-tarask case (his intent isn’t entirely clear to me): get input on the political issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Maybe there’s some other option I haven’t considered.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Peter<o:p></o:p></span></div> </div> </blockquote><br><p> 
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