Need decisions on proposed new and updated subtags

[Don Osborn]

Agree with Shawn. Think of -spanglis as "precomposed" at a time when we're yet not ready for a dynamic system?*

However I do think that we'll see a *lot* more combinations in the coming years, even ones that are hard to imagine today, along with needs for handling them in technical (and social) contexts that are impossible to predict.

Don

* Perhaps eventually some form of AI to tag on the fly?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Shawn Steele
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 5:57 PM
To: Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>; Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org>; Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com>
Cc: ietflang IETF Languages Discussion <ietf-languages at iana.org>
Subject: RE: Need decisions on proposed new and updated subtags

> > 3. Spanglish variant
> > http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2017-January/013575.
> > html 
> > http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2017-January/013579.html
> > 	Variant: spanglis

> I’ll extend it, but am strongly minded to approve. I don’t find the other arguments convincing, not so far anyway.

I don't object to -spanglis.  

I would not mind a system to encode other combinations, however I don't like the idea of a system as complex as some of the proposals for -t-, and I (& Microsoft, but we're individuals here) are not at all keen on overloading -t- to describe code switching.

I think that there's no harm in registering -spanglis (or other possible requests like -hinglish) even if a more general solution for that concept is agreed upon in the future.

-Shawn 

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