<br>From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer@nic.fr]<br><br>>>> a) Reject any request with political issues to ensure this <br>list<br>>>> avoids politics?<br>>><br>>> Certainly not. This would give veto power to anyone in the<br>>> world. Anyone could shout "This proposal is politically wrong" and<br>>> then stall all the process.<br>As I've said, I agree this could be the case; it's troubling.<br>>Evidently you and Mark Crispin are in disagreement over this.<br><br><br><br>Peter<br><br>petercon@microsoft.com<br><br>Karen_Bromme@spe.sony.com<br>Karen Broome<br>Metadata Systems Designer<br>Sony Pictures Entertainment<br>310.244.4384 :<br>>I don't think anyone's disagreeing that there are at least two variants of the orthography of this language. I think the politics <br>> come in when the variants represent certain political sectors and you have an <br>> instance . . . <br><br>>As far as the "be"
Wikipedia, the two groups are not amenable to working >together because of political biases so WMF <br>>needs to make a choice as <br>>far as what content populates its "be" namespace. That's very political because >it implies a <br>>preference.<br>(We are not Wikipedia, Michael, Doug, somemone, right, so this is not our issue here, whatever is happening there, right? )<br><br>>On the other hand, I'd like to think that we don't represent a bias as <br>>to the "right" variant of a language.<br><br>Yes, that's what I understand too that we don't represent a bias or at least are not supposed to regardless of any personal biases we may have.<br><br>>We should be careful now and in the future to disregard the politics of the >implementation that led to the request and <br>>consider requests on their
descriptive merits. I don't think the descriptive needs >for these tags were ever political or <br> >debatable. If I'm wrong on that, I'm sure someone will enlighten me.<br><br>Yes I agree, it's my understanding that subtags are assigned regardless whenever there is a need out there--that is, use of a language or script or variety of one out there.<br><br>We can ask Michael again for a policy clarification here; or Doug; or any other person who runs this list. <br><br>--C. E. Whitehead<br>cewcathar@yahoo.com<br><p> 
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