Fwd: Protocol Action: 'Matching of Language Tags' to BCP

FYI. This approval means that the publication of draft-ietf-ltru-registry
(aka RFC3066bis) as an RFC is now fully in the hands of the RFC Editor.

Regards,    Martin.

>From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
>To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>

>Subject: Protocol Action: 'Matching of Language Tags' to BCP 
>Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:51:18 -0400
>
>The IESG has approved the following document:
>
>- 'Matching of Language Tags '
>   <draft-ietf-ltru-matching-15.txt> as a BCP
>
>This document is the product of the Language Tag Registry Update Working Group. 
>
>The IESG contact persons are Ted Hardie and Lisa Dusseault.
>
>A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ltru-matching-15.txt
>
>Technical Summary
>  
>   This document describes a syntax, called a language-range, for
>   specifying items in a user's language preferences, called a language
>   priority list.  It also describes different mechanisms for comparing
>   and matching these to language tags.  Two kinds of matching
>   mechanisms, filtering and lookup, are defined.  Filtering produces a
>   (potentially empty) set of language tags, whereas lookup produces a
>   single language tag.  Possible applications include language
>   negotiation or content selection.  This document, in combination with
>   draft-ietf-ltru-registry-14, will become BCP 47, replacing RFC 3066.
>
>Working Group Summary
> 
> Working group support for this document is strong.  There was one objection
> raised during IETF Last Call, related to the scope and applicability of the
>  work. This objection had previously been considered and rejected in the
>working
>  group.
> 
>Protocol Quality
> 
>This document was reviewed for the IESG by Ted Hardie.  The PROTO shepherd was
> Martin Duerst.
>
>Note to RFC Editor
> 
>In Section 2:
>
>OLD:
>
>   In a language range, each subtag MUST either
>   be a sequence of ASCII alphanumeric characters or the single
>   character '*' (%2A, ASTERISK).  The character '*' is a "wildcard"
>   that matches any sequence of subtags.  The meaning and uses of
>   wildcards vary according to the type of language range.
>
>NEW:
>
>   In a language range, each subtag MUST either
>   be a sequence of ASCII alphanumeric characters or the single
>   character '*' (%x2A, ASTERISK).  The character '*' is a "wildcard"
>   that matches any sequence of subtags.  The meaning and uses of
>   wildcards vary according to the type of language range.
>
>In Section 3.3.2
>
>OLD:
>
>       Split both the extended language range and the language tag being
>       compared into a list of subtags by dividing on the hyphen (%2D)
>       character.  Two subtags match if either they are the same when
>       compared case-insensitively or the language range's subtag is the
>       wildcard '*'.
>
>NEW:
>
>      Split both the extended language range and the language tag being
>       compared into a list of subtags by dividing on the hyphen (%x2D)
>       character.  Two subtags match if either they are the same when
>       compared case-insensitively or the language range's subtag is the
>       wildcard '*'.


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp

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