LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM: mn-Mong-CN
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
jefsey at jefsey.com
Sat Feb 12 20:29:50 CET 2005
At 19:18 12/02/2005, Mark Davis wrote:
>I want to point out that there are currently 338,345 valid language tags
>according to RFC 3066. The great value of RFC 3066 is that people *didn't*
>have to go through a registration process for the overwhelming majority of
>these cases.
Yes, this IS the difference. RFC 3066 acknowledges the use of ISO 639 on
the Internet, like RFC 1591 acknowledges the use of ISO 3166. It permits
special cases to be registered in addition, like RFC 1591 permits special
cases to be addressed like ".ps", ".eu", ".su" in accordance with the NTIA
agreement with ICANN and the IETF IANA MoU with ICANN and ISOC.
The French tags you quote make no problem being used. They would make in
immediate problem (same as the Draft) if they were registered because there
is no reason for that in the RFC 3066 vision. RFC 3066 and 1591 accept
codes from external existing systems with their well defined purposes and
maintenance rules, and permit to add a few of them if necessary. RFC
3066bis creates a brand new system and wants to impose it where it does not
fit.
You say that the IBM and Microsoft requested registrations are needed. May
be could you document for why they are specifically needed (the whole
reason chain) - if this is not a proprietary reason - so we could better
analyze and discuss the issue on concrete examples?
I will copy a response I send to John Klensin on the IETF list which makes
a summary of the multilingual issue, together with the remarks on the IANA
to Peter Constable.
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