<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 26 Aug 2008, at 07:31, Frank Ellermann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>John Cowan wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">For this purpose we don't need the RFC to be published. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">ietf-languages entered the 4646 epoch as soon as the</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">RFC was accepted and the new registry set up.</blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>There was also the business of "finding" a volunteer for the job of an expert language *subtag* registry reviewer.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That wasn't hard.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>The existing language *tag* reviewer had to agree to this redefinition of his job, and the IESG had to appoint him.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That wasn't hard either; we formalized Doug's work and have a team that works pretty well.</div><div><br></div><div>M<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">ichael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com/">http://www.evertype.com</a></span></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> </div><br></body></html>