Language tags, the phillips draft, and procedures

[Michael Everson]

At 03:09 +0100 2005-01-09, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:

>As I indicated to Misha, what would really help would be a list of 
>motivated support from IAB, Chairs of the IETF WGs from the 
>different concerned areas, and non-English or non-American mother 
>tongue involved network experts or authorities.

*This* is racist. A person's mother tongue being English does not 
prevent him or her from being multilingual or from being 
well-informed about linguistics and linguistic taxonomy. Nor does a 
person's mother tongue being another language confer upon him or her 
such expertise.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com