Records and registration forms for 003 and 021

[Doug Ewell]

Here are the proposed records and registration forms to add 003 and add 
a comment to 021.  Other than the comment, the registration form for 003 
is unchanged from Mark's post.  These can be submitted to IANA in two 
weeks.  Please review these and send any comments to the list before 
that time.

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2010-08-16
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Type: region
Subtag: 003
Description: North America
Added: 2010-08-16
Comments: Includes Northern America (021), Caribbean (029), and Central
  America (013); see also 021
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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

   1. Name of requester: Mark Davis
   2. E-mail address of requester: markdavis at google.com
   3. Record Requested:

      Type: region
      Subtag: 003
      Description: North America
      Comments: Includes Northern America (021), Caribbean (029), and 
Central
        America (013); see also 021

   4. Intended meaning of the subtag: Defined by UN M.49 code 003
(North America)

   5. Reference to published description
      of the language (book or article): UN M.49, a source standard for 
BCP47

   6. Any other relevant information:

The code 003 code in UN M.49, one of the source standards for BCP47,
was mistakenly omitted when BCP47 was updated. (This is
understandable, because it is in an unexpected location on the UN M.49
site: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm) It is the
UN code for the continent of North America (the related 021 is not
considered to be a continent), and prominent in use within CLDR, used
by and important to many companies and organizations such as Apple,
Google, IBM, Adobe, Yahoo, and many others.

It is very much like the region 419, in being composed of other regions:

(021,013,029) = 003 North America
(013,029,005) = 419 Latin America and the Caribbean

Cf. BCP47:

       A.  UN numeric codes assigned to 'macro-geographical
(continental)' or sub-regions MUST be registered in the
registry.  These codes are not associated with an assigned
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and represent supra-national areas,
usually covering more than one nation, state, province, or
territory.

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
File-Date: 2010-08-16
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Type: region
Subtag: 021
Description: Northern America
Added: 2005-10-16
Comments: Does not include Caribbean (029) or Central America (013); see
  also 003
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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell
2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org
3. Record Requested:

   Type: region
   Subtag: 021
   Description: Northern America
   Comments: Does not include Caribbean (029) or Central America (013);
     see also 003

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

5. Reference to published description
   of the language (book or article):

   UN M.49, a source standard for BCP 47.

6. Any other relevant information:

   This registration adds a Comments field to the existing region subtag
   021 for "Northern America," which was included in the original
   Language Subtag Registry in 2005, and whose meaning is unchanged by
   this registration.  Due to the addition of region subtag 003 for the
   similar-sounding name "North America," this comment is intended to
   help users distinguish between the two.  The definitions of "North
   America" and "Northern America" are taken from UN M.49.

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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org
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