Re: [Ltru] Fw: I-D Action:draft-burnett-pronunciation-alphabet-registry-00.txt

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Tue, 15 December 2009 21:02 UTC

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Randy Presuhn scripsit:
> Hi -
> 
> This i-d might be of interest to folks who participated in the ltru effort.

This effort seems singularly pointless and duplicative, since these
Pronouncing Alphabets are just romanization systems, and we already
register those as variant subtags.

Is there any IETF-ly organizational method of discouraging this?

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