<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic dot org>
wrote:</font>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>>John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:<br>
<br>
>> Mere written examples don't, in and of themselves, constitute
"a <br>
>> literature", which is what 639-3/RA requires. I would
expect to see <br>
>> short stories, poems, instruction manuals, or something of the
sort, <br>
>> not merely sample sentences.<br>
><br>
>I couldn't even find sample sentences for Auriongx, just a pair of
base <br>
>URLs for Stefan/Urion's Web sites, with information about the language
<br>
>presumably tucked somewhere within. I guess the RA was just supposed
to <br>
>take it on faith that the language exists, in whatever stage of <br>
>readiness.<br>
</font></tt>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">What an exciting weekend of discussion
on 2009-070 (http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2009-070) for
Auriongx I missed.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks all for the input. In this particular
case, I communicated to the requester that this request was very unlikely
to successfully pass review, because (in summary) it is not sufficiently
established among a self-sustaining user group. He asked that it undergo
the review process anyway. I had observed the "alter ego" issue,
and the absence of "a literature". Nonetheless, I was also bound
to permit the request to undergo the formal process, even while certainly
not taking anything on faith. I could not label it "frivolous"
even if it is unduly hopeful.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As Doug observed in an earlier post:</font>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>>This is why it is so great that ISO 639-3/RA has
an open, public review <br>
>process, and why experts should be taking advantage of it and <br>
>contributing their independent knowledge. The time to notice
and object <br>
>to proposals like Auriongx is when they are under review, not after
they <br>
>have been encoded.</font></tt>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">the review process is working, and your
objections have been noted. I expect that the list participants will be
glad to move on to other topics. Please do comment on other requests. </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Joan</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Joan Spanne<br>
ISO 639-3/RA<br>
SIL International<br>
7500 W Camp Wisdom Rd<br>
Dallas, TX 75236<br>
ISO639-3@sil.org</font>