1926baku
Doug Ewell
dewell at adelphia.net
Mon Apr 9 16:31:11 CEST 2007
C Eddie Whitehead <cewcathar at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> actually I started wishing I had requested all my subtags with the
> text-name first, preceding the date (acad1694; and either nict1606 or
> even better nicot16s but with the latter option the two subtags no
> longer quite coalesce)
I remain convinced that year numbers should be reserved for cases where
we truly have no other alternative, to avoid the use of "new" and
"revised" and such.
> I'm sure the names on mine cannot be changed as of this date,
> and in any case, if Reshat wants the dates first in his,
> then it's settled.
>
> If he does not,
> then maybe someday there is a procedure for changing the names on
> mine (no need to hurry);
> I'll have to read the rfc again
This isn't a question of changing a subtag. It is a question of
deprecating one subtag a month after it was registered and introducing a
synonym with an incrementally better identifier. I think this would be
a simply disastrous idea from the standpoint of stability.
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