Interoperability

[Debbie Garside]

Jefsey

ISO 639-6 is not based on linguasphere but rather on a number of sources,
which include Linguasphere, and further research.  The tables will be made
available when the standard is published.

Debbie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no
> [mailto:idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of jefsey
> Sent: 13 June 2008 15:32
> To: idna-update at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Interoperability
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> Further to the discussion of the IDNA/ML-DNS issue, I would
> like to confirm that the only way that I can see ML-DNS being
> deployed is by being fully IDNA interoperable. This means
> that ML-DNS must be Unicode and punycode compatible on option
> as well as being based on the same ISO 3166 country, script,
> and language table.
>
> Being multitechnology and user oriented, the ML-DNS must
> support various types of implementations of the
> presentational layer. It may do this by using "semantic
> perspectives" to be implemented (or not) as Internet classes.
> These perspectives should use ISO 3166 ccTAGs extended by an
> Open Standards 3166-4 table describing all the languages that
> are being used in each ISO 3166-2 area.
>
> Debby Garside has indicated that ISO 639-6 should be
> published soon, but has not replied about the availability of
> her language entity table. As indicated, we have meanwhile
> pursued the preparation of our own table and we will support
> full interoperability with the ISO 639 series. This may call
> for some further work but should be implemented without
> problem since our table is based on the same Linguasphere
> Observatory list as ISO 639-6 is (http://linguasphere.eu). My
> ccTAG I_D
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mltf-jfcm-cctags-01.txt
> will be updated accordingly.
>
> I do hope that this will be satisfactory to all and will help
> to restart the IDNABIS debate, as well as assist in the LTRU LC.
> jfc
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