<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 29 Aug 2008, at 17:03, Mark Davis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I think the year is a bad idea, because from all I've heard the year is not a defining feature, and there are other years attached to other variants.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I disagree. The Academy per se is an institution. The subtags are for specific orthographies; referring to the institution could cause confusion as an intitution could publish a wildly different specification in due course. The specific orthography or orthographies in this case are best specified by a date referring to an authoritative reference. We've done this before and should do it here.</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>