> Date: 2004-12-15 14:09 > From: "Peter Constable" <petercon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: ietf-languages@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, ietf@xxxxxxxx > > > From: ietf-languages-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-languages- > > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Lilly > > > > Currently sr-CS has a specific > > meaning under RFC 3066; it has had for some time. > > The meaning "Serbia and Montenegro" was introduced relatively recently > (a little more than a year ago), was immediately received with alarm by > many in the IT sector. There were vain attempts to get it reversed, and > that failure was an impetus to introduce protection against such changes > in the revision of RFC 3066. I am not aware of "CS" being used in the IT > sector with the new meaning, though cannot guarantee that. I can. I could, but won't, simply put some content up with that meaning. One example will serve to establish the existing usage; I'll provide two (I'm a heavy tipper :-). I could provide more, but that would be superfluous. 1. URI http://welcome.hp.com/country/cs/sr/welcome.html Aside from the obvious usage in the URI itself, the HTML content contains the following (my commentary marks items of particular relevance): <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> <html lang="sr-cs"> N.B. the specific language-tag "sr-cs"! <meta name="target_country" content="cs"> <td><select name="countrySelect" id="countrySelect" title="Izbor zemlje - Promenom izbora preći ćete na lokaciju izabrane zemlje"> <option selected>Srbija i Crna Gora-Srpski 2. URI http://www.ibm.com/cs/ Once again, note the use in the URI itself. Content includes: <meta name="IBM.Country" content="CS"/> <meta name="Description" content="IBM Serbia and Montenegro"/> <meta name="Abstract" content="IBM Serbia and Montenegro"/> <meta name="Keywords" content="IBM Serbia and Montenegro"/> <meta name="DC.Publisher" content="IBM Corporation"/> <title>IBM Srbija I Crna Gora</title> <a href="/news/cs/2004/10/cs_sr_20041013.html">< N.B. "cs" and "sr" used together. <!-- cs/sr/all assembled by mhpb v1.1 on Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:22:14 CUT --> N.B. "CS" and "sr" together again. Clearly neither example is referring to the no longer extant "Czechoslovakia"... And Hewlett-Packard (having acquired DEC and Compaq) and IBM clearly constitute representatives of "the IT sector". _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf