New Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP

[Bruce Lilly]

> Re: New Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP
>  Date: 2004-12-10 18:34
>  From: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis at jtcsv.com>
>  To: "Peter Constable" <petercon at microsoft.com>, ietf-languages at alvestrand.no, blilly at erols.com

> There is one other point is about ISO 8601 format; I agree with Bruce about
> problems with it. What we should have made clear is that the date format was
> a subset of 8601, and that it would be completely defined by the pattern
> YYYY-MM-DD. (That way people wouldn't have to get a copy of the standard,
> and could easily parse the subset that we actually use.)

Specifying a particular format directly would be
a suitable option.  So would specifying an appropriate
production (e.g. "full-date") from the ABNF in RFC 
3339.