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Hi, I support what Doug says here; I think we can go ahead and register the variants without worrying about the exact description of the prefix subtag.<BR>
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That can be resolved later without changes I hope.<BR>
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<H1> </H1>Doug Ewell <A title="Adding variant subtags 'aluku' and 'nduyka' and 'pamaka' for	dialects" href="mailto:ietf-languages@alvestrand.no?Subject=Adding variant subtags 'aluku' and 'nduyka' and 'pamaka' fordialects&In-Reply-To=">doug at ewellic.org </A><BR>Sun Aug 23 21:18:34 CEST 2009
<BR><PRE>> Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:
>><I> I would like to avoid having to process change forms for these three
</I>>><I> subtags again later. Isn't that reasonable?
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> I'm not sure why we would have to change anything about the registration
> forms for the variants if the ISO 639-3 name for the base language is
> changed. I've thought all along that "Prefix: djk" should be sufficient
> to identify the language to which the variant applies, and that neither
> the Description nor Comments fields absolutely needs to duplicate this
> information:</PRE><PRE>> . . .</PRE><PRE>Yes this is my understanding too!</PRE><PRE> </PRE><PRE>Best,</PRE><PRE> </PRE><PRE>C. E. Whitehead</PRE><PRE><A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A>
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