draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "stability", and extensions

[John Cowan]

Dave Singer scripsit:

> This spec. should unambiguously allow me to extract the language, 
> country, script etc.,

It does (and RFC 3066 does not).

> should say under what circumstances two 
> sub-tags of any type match, state the obvious that two tags exactly 
> match if they have the same sub-tags and they all match, that partial 
> perfect matches (of tags with differing numbers of sub-tags) are 
> possible and may be applicable, and that the use of imperfect matches 
> (in which not all sub-tags match) has to be application-specific. 

Except for the point that tags match if they are (case-insensitively)
identical, which is already made, we don't believe that any of these
other things can be normatively enunciated.

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