> Date: 2004-12-30 10:46 > From: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Peter Constable" <petercon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ietf-languages@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, ietf@xxxxxxxx > 1. OSI 3166 is refered to. RFC 1591 should. RFC 1591 introduces differences > (we all live with) with OSI 3166 which is taken as a reference to know what > is a country. RFC 1591's scope is the DNS, not language tags. I see no relevance to the current discussion. Domain names and language tags are different types of names, used for different purposes, and with different scope (largely non-overlapping, though one might legitimately ask how one is supposed to determine the language of an "internationalized" domain name...) > 2. OSI 639 scripting fr-FR is used while RFC 1958 leads to fr-fr or FR-FR > or FR-fr indifferently and calls for fra-fr to avoid confusion. RFC 1958 states (and RFC 2277 reinforces) that fact that "names" (as that term is used in both documents, meaning tags) are case-insensitive. That is consistent with the case-insensitivity aspects of the draft under discussion. I see nothing in RFC 1958 that would call for "fra-fr" rather than "fr-FR" (specifically, w.r.t. 1958 sect. 4.2 the 2- and 3-letter ISO 639 codes are part of a single list of codes; w.r.t. sect. 4.4 "fr-FR" (in any combination of letter case) is unambiguous as a language tag). _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf