Hoi,<br>With all due respect for the diligence of the process but when you consider the length of time it took, the ISO-639-6 will make this same process impossible because of the amount of data involved. When this process only starts when the publication is imminent, it will take maybe at least a decade based on the number of new entries that ISO 639-6 will bring. That means imho that for ISO-639-6 we will have to rethink the process. We do have room before the publication of the new standard.. it could be seen as pre-emptive involvement because of the huge amount of data involved.<br>
Thanks,<br> Gerard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/13 Doug Ewell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doug@ewellic.org">doug@ewellic.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Randy Presuhn <randy underscore presuhn at mindspring dot com> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> There's no way that I'd be willing to start another round of ltru<br>
> revsions to make the handling of such a hypothetical any clearer. At<br>
> some point folks need to realize that the BCP is not an algorithm for<br>
> execution by finite state automata. It gives guidelines to humans<br>
> who, one would hope, are capable of exercising a bit of common sense.<br>
<br>
</div>I would hope it's blindingly obvious to Randy and everyone else that I<br>
agree with this statement. I would not want to start another round of<br>
LTRU revisions for almost any reason.<br>
<br>
Every so often we talk about adding ISO 639-6 support, which would be a<br>
good enough reason, but only if (a) the draft and data were fully<br>
available for WG review, (b) ISO publication appeared imminent, and (c)<br>
the WG had some hope of agreeing where to put the subtags<br>
architecturally.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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