"mis" update review request

Mark Davis mark.davis at icu-project.org
Fri Apr 13 18:27:42 CEST 2007


We are not working with ISO 639-3 in BCP 47!

The work to integrate ISO 639-3 is going on in the LTRU group, but until it
completes, we can't make any assumptions about how it will deal with the
relationships in ISO 639-3, nor how it would deal with any potential
narrowings in 639-3.

Mrak

On 4/13/07, Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote:
>
> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> >I took the liberty to rewrite your proposal
>
> Thanks, I like it.  Mark's objection makes no sense for me,
> there is a "C" in the scope column of ISO 639-3, isn't it ?
>
> The proposed comment doesn't add or remove a single language
> from this collection.  Abuses of "mis" for other purposes
> are harmful, and that's why I proposed a comment, trying to
> prevent further harm by erroneous interpretations of "mis".
>
> Frank
> --
> > LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
> > 1. Name of requester:                   Frank Ellermann
> > 2. E-mail address of requester:         nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de
> > 3. Record Requested:
> >
> >    Type:                                language
> >    Subtag:                              mis
> >    Description:                         Miscellaneous Languages
> >    Comments:                            A collection of unrelated
> languages which
> >                                         don't belong to any other ISO
> >                                         639-3 collection
> >
> > 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:      n/a (no change)
> > 5. Reference to published description
> >    of the language (book or article):
> >                         http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.ltru/7478
> >                         http://www.sil.org/ISO639-3/scope.asp#C
> > 6. Any other relevant information:      n/a (comment added)
>
>
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Mark
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