language subtag registration request: Region EU
Doug Ewell
dewell at adelphia.net
Sat Jan 14 19:51:58 CET 2006
Regarding the wilingness of ISO 3166/MA to assign code elements for
Antarctica and other non-countries, I'm sure they would consider a
request to assign EU formally if (a) UNSD gave it a numeric code element
and (b) the MA received a request from a member body, preferably one
located within the EU. Those appear to be its criteria. If the MA did
this, then the Reviewer would file a registration form with IANA and EU
would be automatically added as a region subtag.
The MA defines the following categories on its "decoding table" page:
* Officially assigned code element
* User-assigned code element
* Exceptionally reserved code element
* Transitionally reserved code element
* Indeterminately reserved code element
* Code elements not used at present stage
* Un-assigned code elements
While there is some ambiguity in having five categories between
"officially assigned" and "un-assigned," I believe the word "assigned"
as used in Section 3.4 of RFC 3066bis specifically refers to the
"officially assigned" state within ISO 3166. (ISO 639 and 15924 and UN
M.49 do not have these semi-official "reserved" states.) That was the
intention of the WG during lengthy discussion of this topic -- search
the archives for Guernsey and Jersey -- and that is the way the RFC is
worded.
As for adding EU ourselves, in the absence of an assigned ISO 3166 code
element, Section 3.5 is quite clear that we cannot do this.
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Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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