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Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 08 January 2008 09:06 UTC

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Subject: [Ltru] Re: Description on tags, not just subtags?
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:29:01PM -0800,
 Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> wrote 
 a message of 83 lines which said:

>     2) There may be cases where the correct tag for a particular
>     language may not be immediately obvious from the data in the
>     registry.

IMHO, that's the big issue we have with the "alsatian" registration
request. How to help people find the tag when the name they use for
their language is not in the registry?

> I can see several possible responses:
...
>            c) leave the documentation of such cases to others

How do you ensure consistency in that case? Today, some people tag
alsatian as "de-FR", some (very rare, apparently) as "gsw-FR", some as
"gsw-x-alsatian" and some as the (invalid) "gsw-alsatian" or
"alsatian" or "als".

It seems that, for consistent tagging, we need one (1) authoritative
source (wether it is the LSR or a yet-to-be-done companion registry).


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