Registration request: "mis" comment clarifying meaning

[Mark Davis]

I strongly oppose this. We are at work in 4646bis to fix the description of
these codes appropriately. We should not be doing this prematurely in the
registry via comments.

Mark

On 5/11/07, Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've posted the last update of the "mis" template in
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.languages/4448/raw>
> about four weeks ago.  The discussion about it ended,
> and the latest 4646bis draft covers "mis" (among other
> obscure language tags) in section 4.1 point 4 as #5:
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-05#page-46
>
> In essence it says "SHOULD NOT be used" and matches
> the proposed comment, see below.
>
> Frank
>
> ~~~ cut ~~~
> 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 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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