Re: [Ltru] Re: Registry change of the day: prefix with more than onesubtag

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

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