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

[Bruce Lilly]

> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:22:53 -0800
> From: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis at jtcsv.com>
> Subject: Fw: New Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP
> To: <ietf at ietf.org>, <ietf-languages at alvestrand.no>
> Cc: blilly at erols.com
> Message-ID: <23f901c4df28$53e048b0$6501a8c0 at sanjose.ibm.com>

> I am somewhat sympathetic to the idea of having some 
> total limit (except for the late date for the proposed change).

Earlier feedback would have been had if there had been
some announcement of the proposed considerable changes
on the ietf-822 mailing list, or via an IETF WG
charter.

> However, we 
> got considerable pushback on having RFC 3066bis make any previously valid
> RFC3066 tag be invalid

Entirely appropriate.  And the proposed draft would
invalidate the meaning of the valid RFC 3066 language
tag "sr-CS", which is currently in use.

> and any length restriction would do that.

If it makes you happy, you can exclude private-use
tags from an explicit limit.