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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