Glenn, thanks for reminding me.... I object strongly to the paragraph in I18N that says: Two-letter primary-tags are reserved for ISO 639 language abbrevia- tions [ISO-639], and three-letter primary-tags for the language abbreviations of the "Ethnologue" [ETHNO] (the latter is in addition to the requirements of RFC 1766). Any two-letter initial subtag is an ISO 3166 country code [ISO-3166]. The reason is what I stated in RFC 1766: The reason for reserving all other tags is to be open towards new revisions of ISO 639; the use of "i" and "x" is the minimum we can do here to be able to extend the mechanism to meet our requirements. If you wish to register I-SIL-nnn as a standard for three-letter Ethnologue-based tags, or even want to push for updating RFC 1766 to include S-nnn as a new category, I would not argue against that, but I would like to stick to the principle of using ISO standards for the basic namespace. Otherwise, we will end up with a really confusing situation once the ISO 3166 three-letter project finishes (if it ever does); its tags are SURE to conflict with the SIL tag. Harald AReceived on Thursday, 2 November 1995 02:43:53 EST
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