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Re: Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP

"Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com> Mon, 29 August 2005 03:00 UTC

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> From: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@jefsey.com>

> >XML, HTML, etc. are not IETF protocols and should not be the main
> >consideration in IETF work on IETF documents,
> 
> They are specifically quoted by the Charter. Also is CLDR...

These are cited in the charter only as examples in a statement to the
effect that "the RFC 3066 standard for language tags has been widely
adopted in various protocols and text formats..."



> It is to note that ISO 639-4 work is about discussing guidelines in
> that area. This work is under way and was not considered.

Mr. Morfin appears to me to have no more than a very vague sense of the
scope of ISO 639-4.



Peter Constable

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