Re: [Ltru] summary of recommendations coming out of this week's teleconf

I believe Peter's summary captures the essence of what came out of the 
teleconference.

Addison

Peter Constable wrote:
> During the teleconf call this week, those of us that participated came 
> to consensus on recommending these directions for 4646bis (at least, 
> this is the understanding I came away with):
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> -          Do not pursue use of the extlang subtag; remove extlang from 
> the ABNF.
> 
> -          Allow all 639-3 code elements as language subtags.
> 
> -          Deprecate all grandfathered tags like “zh-yue” in favour of 
> just “yue”.
> 
> -          Deprecate redundant “sgn-??” tags in favour of the 639-3 code 
> element having the same denotation.
> 
> -          Come up with appropriate recommendations for matching or 
> fallback between a given macrolanguage its encompassed languages.
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> We did not have discussion leading to any specific conclusions regarding 
> matching/fallback or fields that might be added to entries to support that.
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> We did not discuss whether any macrolanguage IDs should be deprecated; 
> e.g. whether zh should be deprecated in favour of cmn, yue, etc.
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> Peter
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Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.

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