Records and registration forms for 003 and 021

"Martin J. Dürst" duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Mon Aug 2 03:51:44 CEST 2010


These are fine with me.    Regards,   Martin.

On 2010/08/02 9:02, Doug Ewell wrote:
> 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.
>
> ---
>
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
> File-Date: 2010-08-16
> %%
> 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
> %%
>
> ---
>
> 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.
>
> ---
>
> LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION
> File-Date: 2010-08-16
> %%
> Type: region
> Subtag: 021
> Description: Northern America
> Added: 2005-10-16
> Comments: Does not include Caribbean (029) or Central America (013); see
> also 003
> %%
>
> ---
>
> 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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