Questions on ISO 639-3

[Marion Gunn]

With all due respect, Addison, what you say below is NOT what Sony's 
Karen actually said, although it is closer to the truth: the truth being 
that Scotland is a country wholly enclosed within the UK and Ireland a 
country partially enclosed within the UK and that, although it suits 
639's current architects to ignore such facts as that both those 
countries are among countries older than the UK or the USA 
inconvenienced by 639 and 3166, there remain many such problems with 639 
and 3166, which rearranging the deckchairs on such lists as this one 
will not fix.
mg

Scotland Phillips, Addison:
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> What Karen is actually saying is: “Scotland does not have an ISO 
> 3166-1 code assigned to it”. Scotland is certainly a nation. Whether 
> it qualifies as a separate country depends on criteria not established 
> here but rather at ISO 3166.
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> Addison
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> Addison Phillips
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> Globalization Architect -- Lab126
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> Internationalization is not a feature.
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> It is an architecture.
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> *From:* ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no 
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] *On Behalf Of *Marion Gunn
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:05 AM
> *To:* ietf-languages at alvestrand.no; Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com
> *Subject:* RE: Questions on ISO 639-3
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>     Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:44:18 -0800
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>     From: "Broome, Karen" <Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com> <mailto:Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com>
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>     Subject: RE: Questions on ISO 639-3
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>     Scotland is not a country.
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>     Karen Broom
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> *Scotland IS a country, Karen* (a great country over a thousand years 
> older than Germany - well, even the USA is an older country than 
> Germany!), whatever you and Sony Corp may believe (or wish others 
> believed). How can it be that new countries, such as Bosnia and Kosovo 
> and other countries only recently emerged from bloody wars, are now 
> being accepted as legitimate countries by the politically-motivated 
> using as tools lists such as this (for the purposes of ISO 639 
> currently under joint US-Austrian control), who refuse to accept as 
> legitimate countries so many peaceful old countries with their own 
> ancient legal and admistrative systems, such as Scotland is?
> mg
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> -- 
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> Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991)
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> 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an
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> Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh,
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> Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland
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> * mgunn at egt.ie <mailto:mgunn at egt.ie> * eamonn at egt.ie 
> <mailto:eamonn at egt.ie> *
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Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991)

27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an

Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh,

Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland

* mgunn at egt.ie * eamonn at egt.ie *