<div dir="ltr">The request is for the broad tag (#1).<div><br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Randy Presuhn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:randy_presuhn@mindspring.com">randy_presuhn@mindspring.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi -<br>
<br>
> From: "Yury Tarasievich" <<a href="mailto:yury.tarasievich@gmail.com">yury.tarasievich@gmail.com</a>><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> To: <<a href="mailto:ietf-languages@iana.org">ietf-languages@iana.org</a>><br>
</div>> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:24 PM<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Subject: Re: BCP47 Appeals process<br>
</div>...<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Anyway, if we are talking precedent, the French subtags are happily<br>
> using "generic" "year-acad" subtags, as far as I know. I'll have yet to<br>
> see good reason for Belarusian ones to not to.<br>
<br>
</div>I think the heart of the question is this: how broadly or narrowly does the<br>
requester want to categorize these variants? Specific possibilities<br>
include:<br>
- a fairly broad subtag covering all varieties of Belarusian that have<br>
at one time or another been "blessed" by the academy. For this case,<br>
it makes sense to *not* include the year.<br>
- a fairly narrow subtag covering only a specific variety of Belarussian,<br>
as defined by the academy at some specific point in time. For this,<br>
it clearly makes sense to include the year.<br>
- a subtag covering multiple, but not all, varieties "blessed" in the past,<br>
present, or future by the academy.<br>
<br>
There currently are no "generic" year subtags. All the "year" subtags have<br>
prefix fields binding them to a specific language. Though there is no<br>
formal prohibition against doing "generic" variants, there has been a<br>
marked reluctance to define them. I think part of the reluctance comes<br>
from the ambiguity doing so would give the the variant records, particularly<br>
if the description fields are not constructed with extreme care to define<br>
exactly what the variant subtag might mean in each of the contexts in<br>
which it might appear.<br>
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Randy<br>
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