deprecating www as language code

Mark Davis ☕ mark at macchiato.com
Fri Apr 8 19:21:41 CEST 2011


And they also always live forever in BCP47. So deprecation wouldn't achieve
anything.

As for reserving other codes, it is also pointless. There are too many
TLA<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-letter_acronym>s
in use, and about half of the code space (17,576) are already taken up by
language codes already. This is the same issue with the overlap of the
region and language codes; protocols and conventions need to avoid using
environments where language codes (or country codes) overlap with other
entities. If a domain label is going to be used for arbitrary language
codes, use it only for language codes.

(And as Doug points out, wikipedia deviates from BCP47 anyway.)

Mark

*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*


On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 07:51, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com>wrote:

> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:
> ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Stephane Bortzmeyer
>
> > but remember that, even if ISO 639 changes the code, RFC
> > 5646 rules (section 3.4) will still make the code live forever
> > (even if it is with "Deprecated: 2011-04-08" and "Preferred-Value: wwx").
>
> Codes live forever in ISO 639-3; they may be deprecated, and they might no
> longer be published in the main list, but they are always defined and retain
> their meaning.
>
>
>
> Peter
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