Re: [Ietf-languages] Latin Sub tags

[Registrar ISO639-3 <[e-mail]>]

Dear John,

The previous ISO change request cycle for 639-3 has been replaced by the
more frequent cycle of the ISO639 Maintenance Agency as of the publication
of ISO639:2023 earlier this month.  Once the MA has considered and decided
on requests, they will be published.  The newsletter that will publish the
requests for comment and the decisions should start up in 2024 and be
released on a quarterly basis. Since the 639 revision, the changes are
still being implemented so I don't have a definite date.  This will replace
the usual update that would have been released in January 2024 by the 639-3
RA under the previous 639-3 standard,

Kind regards,

Janell Nordmoe
ISO639-3 Registrar

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 12:16 PM John Cowan <[e-mail]> wrote:

> (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.
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