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RE: [Ltru] RE: ISO 639-2 decision: "mis"

Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Sat, 16 June 2007 00:21 UTC

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From: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
To: LTRU Working Group <ltru@ietf.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:21:35 -0700
Subject: RE: [Ltru] RE: ISO 639-2 decision: "mis"
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From: Randy Presuhn [mailto:randy_presuhn@mindspring.com]

>> and that it can also determine the extension of 'mis' on the basis of its
>> restricted set.
>
> This is simply not interoperable, as you've already explained.

Even treated as you proposed, 'mis' is inherently unstable wrt extension (and always has been). That is part of the contract taken on by anybody who chooses to use it with any profile of language tags that is open to change. You say that's not interoperable; I say it's interoperable given appropriately low expectations of the usefulness of 'mis' in interchange.


> In any case, I'd really hate
> to have this WG go down the path of defining standardized
> "profiles" of BCP 47 unless there were a *huge* benefit to doing so.

Absolute agreement. I have never suggested we should define standardized "profiles". If a consuming protocol wishes to do so, that's entirely up to them -- we certainly should not do it for them.


Peter


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