<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">"Mark Davis" <<a href="mailto:mark@macchiato.com">mark@macchiato.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">26 August 2008 00:33:31 IST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">"Michael Everson" <<a href="mailto:everson@evertype.com">everson@evertype.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: wadegile and pinyin LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORMs</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div dir="ltr">The answer is that there is no requirement in BCP47 that all possible variant subtags for a given language be registered at once.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am aware of that.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">When arevela or 1996 or 1606nict or any other variant was registered, there was no call for all possible subtags for the base languages be registered. Now, as you know, we have found the need to register a Belarussian variant subtag contrasting with tarask, but that didn't block the initial registration of tarask: it is only that nobody at the time saw a need for it, which is now being addressed.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There's nothing wrong with me asking Why didn't you think of a particularly important Taiwanese romanization that is used in a lot of inputting software.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">If others want to register additional variant subtags for Chinese romanizations, that is up to them to make a proposal. We only have need for these two, at the current time. If and when we need more, if they haven't be yet registered we'll make a proposal at that time.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is nothing improper about my asking you to think about whether it would also be valuable to you, now or in the future, to register one or more additional tags. It's not really OK for you to have ignored my queries, which were addressed to you. I understand that Google has certain interests. I believed I was asking a question congruent with those interests.</div><div><br></div><div>Please respond to my question with respect to the additional orthographies I mentioned. </div><div><br></div></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Everson Mono'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Everson Mono'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: '-webkit-monospace'; ">Michael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com/">http://www.evertype.com</a></span></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>