draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, and extensions

Tex Texin tex at xencraft.com
Sun Jan 2 00:06:34 CET 2005


Bruce,

This is wrong. Sec 2.2 says "The value "i" is reserved for IANA-defined
registrations".
It does not say it is exclusively used for registrations.

And in fact if you look in the registry
http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-tags

you will see many tags that do not start with "i".

art-lojban, az-Arab, az-Cyrl, az-Latn, cel-gaulish, de-1901, de-1996,
de-AT-1901, de-AT-1996, de-CH-1901, de-CH-1996, de-DE-1901, de-DE-1996,
en-boont, en-GB-oed, en-scouse, no-bok, no-nyn, sgn-BE-fr, sgn-BE-nl, sgn-BR,
sgn-CH-de, sgn-CO, sgn-DE, sgn-DK, sgn-ES, sgn-FR, sgn-GB, sgn-GR, sgn-IE,
sgn-IT, sgn-JP, sgn-MX, sgn-NI, sgn-NL, sgn-NO, sgn-PT, sgn-SE, sgn-US, sgn-ZA,
sl-nedis, sl-rozaj, sr-Cyrl, sr-Latn, uz-Cyrl, uz-Latn, yi-latn, zh-gan,
zh-guoyu, zh-hakka, zh-Hans, zh-Hant, zh-min, zh-min-nan, zh-wuu, zh-xiang,
zh-yue

tex


Bruce Lilly wrote:
> > 1. Â All tags valid under the generative RFC 3066bis syntax could have
> > been registered, and therefore would have been valid, under RFC 3066 as
> > well.
> 
> Not so. RFC 3066 section 2.2 specifically requires for IANA registered
> tags:
> 1. the primary subtag be "i"
> 2. the second subtag consist of 3 to 8 characters.
> 
> The generative mechanisms have a primary subtag of 2 or 3 letters
> and a second subtag of 2 letters.
> 
> The two sets of namespaces do not overlap, in whole or in either
> the primary or second subtag.



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