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

[Misha Wolf]

JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:

[I've re-wrapped some lines]

> At 14:26 07/01/2005, John Cowan wrote:
> > If there's any defending the presence of an *algorithm* in a 
> > BCP at all, it's because we are not making the algorithm
> > normative, but just saying "The most commonly used algorithm 
> > is".

> [...] Do you have a way to quantify this: number of usages, 
> number of applications, number of languages.

I can't quantify, but the HTML spec has for many years included 
this algorithm.  See, for example:
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.1

Misha





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