Re: [iucg] [happiana] New Version Notification for draft-leiba-iana-policy-update-00.txt

["Martin J. Dürst" <[e-mail]>]

On 2011/09/29 6:35, JFC Morfin wrote:

> The Internet is a part of the whole digital ecosystem (WDE). As such it
> should converge with other registries documenting the WDE or being used
> through the WDE. This calls for the IANA to also capitilize on the
> JTC1/SC32/WG2 experience and study the interest of becoming at least ISO
> 11179 conformant. This should lead Barry's I_D is to be "ported" into an
> ISO 11179 context (concepts, terminology, procedures, I/O formats,
> creation, relation with information provider, graded reviewers, etc.).
> And then consider how it would better/lesser fit the IANA needs.
>
> This was discussed at the langtag registry definition time. The langtag
> registry by its size is most of the IANA registry. It did not went
> through beacause the langtag registry was a new registry and the WG's
> charter did not focus on what ISO 11179 would have brought.

Just for the record, I was co-chair of the responsible ltru WG. It is 
true that the issue of ISO 11179 was brought up on that list by JFC 
Morfin. And as the excerpt below shows, it is true that not all other WG 
participants were a-priori against ISO 11179 conformance, whatever that 
would have meant.

However, if my recollection and my judgment of the WG situation is 
correct, I think given the general interests in the WG, JFC Morfin would 
have had an extremely hard time obtaining any kind of WG consensus 
towards ISO 11179 conformance even if he had pressed the issue. I can't 
speak for any WG participants in particular, but my guess is that the 
overhead was simply seen as too big, with not enough actual gains.

Regards,    Martin.

> I wish to quote an excellent mail on the matter by Debbie Garside (NB. I
> defeated her FDIS 3166-1 which was an uncorrect political move, but
> analyzing ISO 11179 conformance was a right architectural move).