Archival of registration forms
Doug Ewell
dewell at adelphia.net
Wed Apr 25 06:51:09 CEST 2007
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr> wrote:
> That's precisely why it is important to have the final form:
> understanding "valencia" or "1926baku" currently requires reading many
> messages in the ietf-languages archive. 12 months from now, it will be
> quite difficult and problems already discussed on ietf-languages may
> surface again.
While I have no problem with your main message about archiving the
registration forms, I disagree with these two specific examples.
Type: variant
Subtag: valencia
Description: Valencian
Added: 2007-03-06
Prefix: ca
Comments: Variety spoken in the "Comunidad Valenciana" region of Spain,
where it is co-official with Spanish.
Type: variant
Subtag: baku1926
Description: Unified Turkic Latin Alphabet (Historical)
Added: 2007-04-18
Prefix: az
Prefix: ba
Prefix: crh
Prefix: kk
Prefix: krc
Prefix: ky
Prefix: sah
Prefix: tk
Prefix: tt
Prefix: uz
Comments: Latin orthography used in the Soviet Union in the 1930s
for writing Turkic languages. Also called New Turkic Alphabet;
Birlәşdirilmiş Jeni; Türk
Әlifbasь; or Jaŋalif.
Do you really think these two entries are inadequate to describe their
respective language variants? I can't think of anything that came out
of the debates over these subtags that would have improved these entries
by their inclusion.
In fact, much of the mailing-list discussion of "valencia" had to do
with including Description fields in multiple languages, and much of the
discussion of "baku1926" had to do with the exact subtag value that was
to be chosen. There was very little disagreement over the meaning of
either subtag, especially in the case of "valencia", where the
references included with the registration form were not dictionaries or
grammars, but merely citations of the law that makes Valencian an
official language in the indicated region.
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