Reminder: ISO 639-3 changes are coming

[Michael Everson]

On 13 Nov 2009, at 05:13, Doug Ewell wrote:

> Each 639-3 change that affects the Registry will require its own proposed record and registration form, posted to this list for a two-week review period, and will have to be submitted individually to IANA.  This is the process outlined in RFC 5646 and approved by the IETF and IESG.

What? That's just stupid. What kind of busy-work is it for me to sit and format 150 individual e-mails to IANA? Surely these can be just as safely transmitted to them in a single .zip file.

> I just want to make sure that everyone is aware this workload is coming,  probably about two months from now, and that we don't treat it as some sort of sudden, unexpected anomaly and propose ad-hoc rule changes to work around it.  It is the way of our future, once a year.

I formally propose that massive changes and uncontroversial like this be transmitted safely in a single .zip file. I propose this now, so that the rule changes are not "ad-hoc" but agreed in advance.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/