[Ltru] clause 2.2.5 (1) in 4646bis draft

"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Fri, 07 December 2007 20:07 UTC

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Hi -

As a technical contributor...

RFC 4646 and internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-09.txt
Clause 2.2.5. (1) say:

   1.  Variant subtags are not associated with any external standard.
       Variant subtags and their meanings are defined by the
       registration process defined in Section 3.5.

One could read this to mean that if there is an "external standard"
for something, it would consequently be ineligible for a
variant subtag. I'd hope that it's simply a bad choice of words
variant subtags associated with external standards (e.g., the German
orthographic reforms) are very useful things.)

Randy



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