"mis" update review request

[Mark Davis]

It is absolutely not disingenuous; by the phrasing of messages on this list
there are clearly people who don't care as much about stability as others
do.

Mark

On 4/13/07, Doug Ewell <dewell at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> Mark Davis <mark dot davis at icu dash project dot org> wrote:
>
> > Moreover, while some may be perfectly willing to have stability go by
> > the wayside, it is extremely important to us
>
> I think this comment is really disingenuous; there is probably not a
> single member of this list who does not care at all about stability.  It
> is more a question of what can really be expected in the way of
> "stability" when using collection codes, especially "Miscellaneous."
> They are not normatively defined in terms of their component languages,
> even by ISO 639, let alone by RFC 4646 or its predecessors.  One simply
> cannot know for certain exactly what languages are covered under "mis",
> or whether that list will be the same next week.
>
> I suspect this whole debate over "mis" is more of a thought-experiment,
> based on what might happen when those who treat "mis" liberally clash
> with those who treat it conservatively, rather than developing out of
> any real conflict in usage.  I don't plan to worry about it much.  We
> have enough difficulty ironing out the real-world cases.
>
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Mark
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