Addition to ISO 639-3: [lyg]

[Mark Davis]

> It may cause trouble, but not on our watch.  The semantics of language
subtags
come from ISO 639-3 and Ethnologue, not us.

Not quite. If ISO narrows a value, then we have to decide whether or not
that change is significant.

Mark

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:01 PM, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:

> Doug Ewell scripsit:
> > Debbie Garside <debbie at ictmarketing dot co dot uk> wrote:
> >
> > >>My overall feeling is that we should accept the narrowing, which is
> > >>only implicit
> > >
> > >Agreed.  As we follow ISO 639 this is the right decision to make IMHO.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > >>(it does not require actual changes to the registry entry for 'kha').
> > >
> > >I don't agree here.  I think, as has been done before, that 'kha'
> > >should have a comment added to say something like "as of  [date] this
> > >code does not include Lynghgam - see lyg"
> >
> > I'm not completely opposed to this, but I'm concerned about the
> > precedent it sets for us (mostly Michael and me).  Basically we would
> > need to examine every new ISO 639-3 code element to determine whether it
> > represents a split of an existing code element, and create a comment on
> > the existing subtag similar to the one proposed here.
>
> Only if someone brings it to your attention, I think.  Comment fields
> are discretionary.
>
> > How much trouble does it cause if we get a batch
> > of 250-plus ISO 639-3 changes and one of these slips through unnoticed?
>
> It may cause trouble, but not on our watch.  The semantics of language
> subtags
> come from ISO 639-3 and Ethnologue, not us.
>
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Mark
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