Re: [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix with more than onesubtag
"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Thu, 12 July 2007 18:27 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix with more than onesubtag
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:28:11 -0700
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Hi - As a technical contributor... > From: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> > To: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@roadrunner.com> > Cc: "LTRU Working Group" <ltru@ietf.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:13 AM > Subject: [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix with more than onesubtag > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 10:56:33PM -0700, > Doug Ewell <dewell@roadrunner.com> wrote > a message of 72 lines which said: > > > I can't think of a clean way to tell software which variants can be > > used together and which cannot, > > I believe that we should handle this case under the general rule > "standards cannot prevent every stupid thing": > > "Validity of a tag is not everything. A tag may be valid and > meaningless. This is unavoidable with a generative system like the > language subtag mechanism. So, ar-Cyrl-AQ - Arabic written with the > cyrillic script, as used in Antarctica - is perfectly valid but should > nevertheless be avoided because it has no relationship with the > reality." > > There does not seem to be similar text in 4646bis. Do we think it > should be included or is it too paternalistic for readers? Since the question seems to keep coming up, it's probably worth including. For a heading for the section, I like your words: "standards cannot prevent every stupid thing." I'd suggest putting it next to the section entitled "tag wisely." :-) * 0.5 Randy _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
- [Ltru] Registry change of the day: prefix with mo… Stephane Bortzmeyer
- [Ltru] Publication of language subtag registratio… Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] Registry change of the day: prefix wit… Addison Phillips
- [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix wit… Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix… John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix… Addison Phillips
- [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix wit… Doug Ewell
- [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix wit… Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix… Randy Presuhn
- [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix wit… Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix… Randy Presuhn