Here's what I have to say aboutthat?
Addison Phillips [wM]
aphillips at webmethods.com
Mon May 26 21:37:30 CEST 2003
Michael Everson wrote:
> At 06:23 -0500 2003-05-26, Peter_Constable at sil.org wrote:
>
>> Michael Everson wrote on 05/26/2003 11:20:52 AM:
>>
>>> >I would argue in favour of en-IE-latn rather than en-latn-IE...
>>
>>> Oh joy. We don't have consensus on the syntax for these tags either.
>>
>> IIRC, this issue does not affect any of Mark's requests.
>
> My point is that we seem to be adding things that have some sort of
> possibly-parsible syntax, and we have no policy regarding that.
What a load of tripe.
EVERY tag in the registry has a "possibly parsible syntax". I cite the
first 11 in the list:
art-lojban Lojban [Cowan]
cel-gaulish Gaulish [Lilley]
de-1901 German, traditional [Bronger]
orthography
de-1996 German, orthography of 1996 [Bronger]
de-AT-1901 German, Austrian variant, [Bronger]
traditional orthography
de-AT-1996 German, Austrian variant, [Bronger]
orthography of 1996
de-CH-1901 German, Swiss variant, [Bronger]
traditional orthography
de-CH-1996 German, Swiss variant, [Bronger]
orthography of 1996
de-DE-1901 German, German variant, [Bronger]
traditional orthography
de-DE-1996 German, German variant, [Bronger]
orthography of 1996
en-boont Boontling [Cowan]
Why every one of them can be parsed in some way! The tags are not
formless, but contain fields, each of which conveys some meaning about
the tag, in a hierarchical order of increasing specificity. That is the
point.
Very clearly, Mark did not attempt to register the country variants of
the proposed tags because of previous discussion, avoiding this issue,
which need never be entered into in the lifetime of RFC3066.
> and we have no policy regarding that.
Who is "we", anyway? The IETF says quite clearly that anyone who joins
one of its mailing lists is a member ;-).
If Mark doesn't get an answer when time runs out on this set of
proposals he ought, in my opinion, appeal to the next higher level in
the RFC just on general principles.
Regards,
Addison
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