Anomaly in upcoming registry

[Randy Presuhn]

Hi -

> From: "Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>
> To: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 7:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Anomaly in upcoming registry
...
> The real anomaly, then, is within ISO 639, in which:
> 
> part 1 includes the 2-letter code element but deprecates it,
> part 3 includes the 3-letter code element and does not deprecate it, and
> part 2 does not include the 3-letter code element at all.
> 
> In draft-4646bis we are adding ISO 639-3 to the list of source 
> standards, not necessarily replacing ISO 639-1 and -2.  At least I can't 
> find any text in draft-4646bis to the effect that -3 trumps -1 and -2 in 
> case of conflicts.  So to me, it is not clear whether this subtag should 
> be left alone (following part 1 but not part 3) or should be 
> un-deprecated (following part 3 but not part 1).  It certainly isn't 
> patently obvious to me that this is a bug in the draft-4645bis Registry 
> that needs to be fixed.
...

I think no one is suggesting that anything be done to draft-4645bis.
I think re-opening 4645bis to make a change of this nature would
be inappropriate.

After the registry has been updated, however, this list could reasonably
discuss whether to do anything about this particular case.

Randy