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<p class="MsoNormal">I agree, and for my part, I’ve never been convinced that there were particularly good scenarios for referencing 639-5 within BCP 47. But that’s history, and it _<i>is</i>_ referenced in BCP 47 now.
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, if nothing else, I think 639-5 should not be withdrawn. Because my main concern is BCP 47, I would have no qualms if 639-5 and its code table remain unchanged. I can certainly imagine linguists finding use for a rather different scheme
for denoting nodes in linguistic family trees. But the alpha-3 IDs included in the language subtag registry must remain stable. It’s not clear to me whether a different coding scheme for “genetic” nodes would be appropriate for an ISO standard or not, given
different analyses of genetic/historic relationships that different linguists may adhere to or that may gain or lose support over time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Anthony Aristar [mailto:anthony@aristar.org] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 15, 2016 8:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ietf-languages <ietf-languages@iana.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: FYI: ISO 639-5 reconfirmation ballot<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Well, I don't have a vote; but in my humble belief, 639-5 is something that should be completely rethought. It confuses people (why use alpha-3 codes which look identical to language codes?). And it is nowhere
near complete enough to be useful. I know archives which use the LINGUIST set of alpha-4 codes for these very reasons.<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On Jul 15, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Peter Constable <<a href="mailto:petercon@microsoft.com">petercon@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ISO standards go through a regularly-scheduled reconfirmation, and a reconfirmation ballot for ISO 639-5 has just been issued to national bodies. I have advised US NB representatives that 639-5 is referenced in BCP 47 and, hence, should
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