Variant subtag request: iso91995

["Martin J. Dürst"]

I'm not totally happy with 91995. First, I thought it was referring to 
ISO standard number 91995. Then I had my doubts; although ISO has 
reached five digits, all of those I know start with 1 or two.

So I was assuming it's something like ISO 9199-5. Reading the 
registration form, it turns out I was wrong again, it's ISO 9:1995. 
Didn't know ISO had one-digit standards numbers :-).

In theory, 91995 might also refer to 91-995 or 919-95 or so; it would be 
helpful if we could find a way to disambiguate this.

Regards,   Martin.

On 2010/09/15 4:06, Avram Lyon wrote:
> Dear IETF Languages members:
>
> As promised, I have another romanization variant subtag request for
> your consideration. This romanization is defined for a great many
> languages, so I opted to not define a prefix for it. The romanization
> and its coverage of Cyrillic scripts is defined in the ISO document
> referenced in the request, but it is also available at
> http://github.com/ajlyon/translit/blob/master/translit-systems.js#L366
> , in the form of a transliteration table that I've written up.
>
> I'm not terribly happy with the subtag 'iso91995', but I'm having
> trouble coming up with a valid alternative.
>
> I look forward to your comments.
>
> Best,
>
> Avram
>
> 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: iso91995
>        Description: ISO 9 romanization of Cyrillic, 1995 edition
>        Prefix:
>        Preferred-Value:
>        Deprecated:
>        Suppress-Script:
>        Comments:
>
>     4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
> Text presented in the ISO 9:1995 romanization of Cyrillic.
>     5. Reference to published description
>        of the language (book or article):
> Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic
> characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages,
> International Standard (Reference number ISO 9:1995(E)). (Geneva,
> Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization, February
> 15, 1995).
>     6. Any other relevant information:
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#-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
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