Re: [Ltru] Applicability Statement for the IANA registry established by 4646

["Phillips, Addison" <[e-mail]>]

> 
> I agree for the most part with Mark's suggested text, which
> maintains
> the spirit of brevity of Alexey's original text, but is not so
> exceedingly terse that it raises more questions than it answers.

+1

> 
> I also agree with Kent's concern about introducing "backup
> languages" as
> a new term.  We in the WG understand what this means, but many
> readers
> will expect a formal explanation.  "Fallback" won't quite work
> either,
> since RFC 4647 uses this term to refer specifically to the tag you
> end
> up with when you start truncating subtags from the right.  I wonder
> if
> it would be possible, in this brief paragraph, to talk about the
> concept
> of the language(s) in which a user prefers to receive content,
> without
> having to introduce a new term for it.
> 

+1!

See my suggested revision for a stab at this.

Addison