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hi, Doug, all:<br><br>So are you saying that the comments field should or should not be included here?; I'd prefer it be included.<br><br><br>> From: doug@ewellic.org<br>> To: ietf-languages@iana.org<br>> CC: cewcathar@hotmail.com<br>> Subject: Re: Proposal to remove Preferred-Value field for region YU in LTRU<br>> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:01:20 -0700<br>> <br>> CE Whitehead wrote:<br>> <br>> > (This chain does provide a bit of history! )<br>> <br>> I don't believe it's the Registry's job to provide history. Historical <br>> background information may be useful in some cases to help users make <br>> good language tagging choices, but not for its own sake. It would be <br>> hard to tell where to stop; there would be no point in adding a comment <br>> to the region subtag 'US' to point out that the United States were once <br>> colonies of Great Britain.<br>> <br>> > I feel that the Comments field is absolutely needed.<br>> > (Can we always add comments when a subtag is deprecated & there is no <br>> > preferred value?<br>> <br>> There is no provision in the drafts for any comments to be mandatory, <br>> and in my opinion there should not be.<br>So are you saying that the comments field should or should not be included here; I'd prefer it be included.<br>> <br>> > [but I do wonder what way the comments field influences how <br>> > applications process language info, if it does?])<br>> <br>> Since Comments fields are free-form text, it would hard to see how <br>> applications would use them, other than displaying them.<br>Thanks.<br><br>--C. E. Whitehead<br>cewcathar@hotmail.com <br>> <br>> > I am unsure as to whether we should wait for RFC 4646 or not (need to <br>> > research protocol), but note that doing so involves having Doug modify <br>> > 4645 still another time.<br>> <br>> I have to modify draft-4645bis (which I'm sure is what you meant) again <br>> anyway.<br>> <br>> --<br>> Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14<br>> http://www.ewellic.org<br>> http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html<br>> http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ<br>> <br></body>
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