3066ter (Re: Guernsey Jersey and Isle of Man ISO 3166-1 Codes)

[Addison Phillips]

> what's the current 3066bis registerable moral equivalent of "i-gagauz"?
> That's what I was thinking of.

It would be a registered language subtag (which is discouraged for the
reasons Harald cited earlier). A registered language subtag is an alpha code
of five or more characters ("gagauz" would qualify).

Addison

Addison Phillips
Internationalization Architect - Yahoo! Inc.

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature. 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Harald Alvestrand
> Sent: 2006?4?10? 9:15
> To: John Cowan
> Cc: ietf-languages at iana.org; L.Gillam at surrey.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: 3066ter (Re: Guernsey Jersey and Isle of Man ISO 3166-1
Codes)
> 
> John Cowan wrote:
> > Harald Alvestrand scripsit:
> >
> >
> >> in one of my more crotchety moods, I'm inclined to claim that if
> >> someone's unwilling to type or tape 50 samples of a language and send
> >> these off to five different institutions, that person shouldn't waste
> >> the time of the rest of the world in pushing for his language to have a
> >> tag this week rather than a year or two from now......... ie I'd say
> >> that if a real need exists, and the proposer has already managed to
> pass
> >> through whatever minefield guards the access to 639-3 registration,
> >> he'll find a way.....
> >>
> >
> > I tend to agree (reading "639-2" for "639-3"), but we'll have to await
> events.
> >
> the reason I said 639-3 was because you said your example (Gagauz) was
> already in 639-3, so that hurdle is already passed.
> >
> >> For the tags that have failed to meet whatever criteria 639-3 sets for
> >> language tags, but are still seen as valuable (if such a beast can
> >> exist) variant registration seems like a reasonable course to
recommend.
> >>
> >
> > Here I can't agree.  A language isn't a variant just because it hasn't
> > gone through the 639-2 process, and Gagauz in particular isn't a variant
> > of any other language, though it does belong to the Turkic language
> *family*.
> >
> what's the current 3066bis registerable moral equivalent of "i-gagauz"?
> That's what I was thinking of.
> 
>                    Harald
> 
> 
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