Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian

[Avram Lyon]

As there has no official revised proposal, I'd like to submit the
following variant subtag for official review:

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
  1. Name of requester: Avram Lyon
  2. E-mail address of requester: ajlyon at ucla.edu
  3. Record Requested:

     Type: variant
     Subtag: alalc97
     Description: ALA-LC Romanization, 1997 edition
     Comments: Romanizations recommended by the American
Library Association and the Library of Congress, in "ALA-LC Romanization
Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts" (1997)

  4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
This variant subtag is intended to apply to text presented in
the Library of Congress romanization, widely used in English-language
academic works that discuss or employ sources that use non-Latin scripts.

  5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
American Library Association and Library of Congress. 1997.
ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman
Scripts. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html

  6. Any other relevant information:
This romanization is used in library bibliographic systems across the
United States and encompasses the standard scholarly transliteration
systems of many disciplines.