Re: [Ltru] Issue #36 (AD comment #3) rules for UN M.49 codes

CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com> Sun, 12 April 2009 13:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ltru] Issue #36 (AD comment #3) rules for UN M.49 codes
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Don't know if I should inject my two cents here; I agree with Mark that "SHOULD NOT" should 
become a "MUST NOT"
As for the other "SHOULD"s/"MUST"s (section 3.5, 4.5) I don't know enough to comment.

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C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar@hotmail.com







>> From: "Alexey Melnikov" <alexey.melnikov at isode.com>

>> To: "LTRU Working Group" <ltru at ietf.org>

>> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:08 AM

>> Subject: [Ltru] AD review of draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-21bis.txt



>> 3). Section 2.2.4 says:

>>

>> >        F.  All other UN numeric codes for countries or areas that do not

>> >            have an associated ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code MUST NOT be

>> >            entered into the registry and MUST NOT be used to form

>> >            language tags.  For more information about these codes, see

>> >            Section 3.4.

>>

>> And Section 3.4 says:

>>

>> >   16.  UN M.49 has codes for both countries and areas (such as '276'

>> >         for Germany) and geographical regions and sub-regions (such as

>> >         '150' for Europe).  UN M.49 country or area codes for which

>> >         there is no corresponding ISO 3166-1 code SHOULD NOT be

>>

>> Unless I am confused, I think this SHOULD NOT contradicts MUST NOT in

>> section 2.2.4.

> I think you need to change one of 2 sections.