Proposal to remove Preferred-Value field for region YU in LTRU
CE Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com
Sun Feb 22 20:11:39 CET 2009
hi, Doug, all:
So are you saying that the comments field should or should not be included here?; I'd prefer it be included.
> From: doug at ewellic.org
> To: ietf-languages at iana.org
> CC: cewcathar at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Proposal to remove Preferred-Value field for region YU in LTRU
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:01:20 -0700
>
> CE Whitehead wrote:
>
> > (This chain does provide a bit of history! )
>
> I don't believe it's the Registry's job to provide history. Historical
> background information may be useful in some cases to help users make
> good language tagging choices, but not for its own sake. It would be
> hard to tell where to stop; there would be no point in adding a comment
> to the region subtag 'US' to point out that the United States were once
> colonies of Great Britain.
>
> > I feel that the Comments field is absolutely needed.
> > (Can we always add comments when a subtag is deprecated & there is no
> > preferred value?
>
> There is no provision in the drafts for any comments to be mandatory,
> and in my opinion there should not be.
So are you saying that the comments field should or should not be included here; I'd prefer it be included.
>
> > [but I do wonder what way the comments field influences how
> > applications process language info, if it does?])
>
> Since Comments fields are free-form text, it would hard to see how
> applications would use them, other than displaying them.
Thanks.
--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com
>
> > I am unsure as to whether we should wait for RFC 4646 or not (need to
> > research protocol), but note that doing so involves having Doug modify
> > 4645 still another time.
>
> I have to modify draft-4645bis (which I'm sure is what you meant) again
> anyway.
>
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