Re: [Ietf-languages] Latin Sub tags

[John Cowan <[e-mail]>]

(I apologize for my previous null reply.)

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 12:43 PM <[e-mail]> wrote:


just this month, the setting for ISO 639 has changed.  The earlier
> independently managed parts are now understood to belong to ONE code, the
> identifiers of the elements of which may belong to different SETS which
> correspond to the earlier PARTS 1 to 5.
>

This is excellent news.  I see that the Wikipedia article has already been
updated.


> So from now on, any changes to ISO 639 are presumably better coordinated,
> as any new requests (most are expected to come in via the earlier registrar
> of Part 3) will be considered right away as concerning the code as a whole,
> and then the consequences for possible needs to update different subsets of
> the identifiers will be considered simultaneously.
>

This is not very clear.  Does it mean, for example, that the existing
Ethnologue annual approval cycle will continue, and only then will the
resulting code changes be propagated to the various sets of ISO 639?  Or is
the intention to speed up the approval process altogether?  Please help us
understand this.


> If you (or anybody else here) need further clarification about this, I am
> willing to answer this off-list, in order not to spam this list with ISO
> questions.
>

Although there is not and cannot be a formal relationship between this list
and any ISO organization. I believe the members of this list would agree
that this discussion is on-topic and indeed highly relevant to this list
and would not be classified as spam even in the widest sense of that term,
which is why I am sending this post to the list.