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

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 09 October 2006 15:14 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 08:08:19AM -0700,
 Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org> wrote 
 a message of 66 lines which said:

> Where will this stop?

Where I said:

> > IF AND ONLY IF:
> >
> >** this new information does not require a new source when building
> >the registry,

> Population of languages? Geographic area spoken? Population density?
> .....

They are not in ISO 639, nor in any other "source standard" of the
language tag registry.

But I can add another criterium:

** this new information is "stable" (yes, I know that "stable" is
fuzzy but there is no doubt that the actual population figure is less
stable than the fact that it is a living language or not)

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