RE: [Ltru] Re: Proposal: include new "Language-Type:" field

Hi,

How about attacking this proposal based on facts, rather than
unrelated topics or grumpiness (not in good taste, Marion)?

draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-00.txt gives advice based on the type
of the ISO 639-3 language code.  What possible reason is
there to say "that's the problem of the user to research",
when it's fundamental to the rationale behind every code
in ISO 639-3?

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Davis [mailto:mark.davis@icu-project.org]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 11:08 AM
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer
Cc: ltru@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: Proposal: include new "Language-Type:" field

-1

I think this is outside of the scope of the registry. Where will this stop?
Population of languages? Geographic area spoken? Population density? .....

The purpose of the registry is to distinguish one language from another. No
more, no less. 

Mark

On 10/9/06, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:42:00AM -0400,
John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote
a message of 72 lines which said:

> A proposal:

+1

> The 4646bis registry should capture the language type information 
> from ISO 639-3.  Each language, including macrolanguages, is labeled
> in -3 as either living, extinct, ancient, historic, or constructed.

I think the more information, the better (*), IF AND ONLY IF: 

** this new information does not require a new source when building
the registry, (because such a new source would complicate the building
process and would add one more dependency, would add one more standard 
to track, etc),

** this new tag does not bother the existing parsers.

To me, this proposal comply with these two rules, so I agree with.

(*) : I let the UI people decide if this is useful for the specific 
issue of trimming the language list ; but, even if they do not use it,
others may be.

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