Archival of registration forms

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

[Copied to ietf-languages because it is related to the registration
process.]

RFC 4646 says in "3.5.  Registration Procedure for Subtags":

>   All approved registration forms are available online in the
>   directory http://www.iana.org/numbers.html under "languages".

[And this is also in draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-04]

At the specified address, you can find the language subtag registry
but not the actual registration forms. Do I read the RFC the wrong
way? Is it IANA's fault?

This is a problem because, now that we've registered several variants,
people who want to know more about them have nowhere to find out. When
you want to know more about a language, you can go to the Ethnologue
or to the ISO standard but, for variants, nothing is written down but
the registration form.

The registry entry is not sufficient since "the registry is not an
encyclopedia". References are omitted, for instance.