Re: [Ltru] Re: Update ltru-initial-05 (was RE: Draft-14 ready...)

Hi -

> From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>
> To: "LTRU Working Group" <ltru@ietf.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 9:40 PM
> Subject: [Ltru] Re: Update ltru-initial-05 (was RE: Draft-14 ready...)
>
> Randy Presuhn <randy underscore presuhn at mindspring dot com> wrote:
> 
> >>>> In section 3 of draft-ietf-ltru-initial-05, it might be useful for
> >>>> the document to include the URL of the IANA registry.  It seems to
> >>>> me that anyone interested in this document will want to locate the
> >>>> IANA registry too."
> >>
> >> Historically, IANA has moved registries around their site as needed.
> >> If you include a URI, you force them to maintain that URI or
> >> redirects to an appropriate URI.  I would suggest a pointer to the
> >> IANA site instead, since that is likely more stable.
> > ...
> >
> > As a contributor...
> > I prefer this alternative, particularly since the document is only
> > informational.
> 
> Somebody please provide the appropriate text, probably for the first
> paragraph of Section 3, and I will be glad to paste it in and submit it
> as soon as possible.
> 
> I note that RFC 3066 specifies only the following for the location of
> its registry:  "The IANA registration forms for registered language
> codes can be found at http://www.iana.org/numbers.html under
> 'languages'."  The exact URI is not given, probably for the reasons of
> maintainability that Ted mentioned..
...

How about this:
  The IANA language subtag registry can be found at
  http://www.iana.org/numbers.html under 'Language Tags'.

Note that the 3066 text isn't even right, which serves to underscore
Ted's point.

Randy

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