At 16:29 05/01/2005, Peter Constable wrote:
> From: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxx>
> why not to follow under IAB guidance (or to review) the charter I proposed > yesterday, in an IETF way everyone could participate, and to have all these > applications supported one shot in working on a linguistic ontology where > each language instance would be documented by an ad hoc authoritative > source. Otherwise it could not be the standard you wish.
The objective of RFC 3066 or any successor is not language documentation (which I understand to mean more or less language description). Perhaps I misunderstand what you're saying here.
The first documentation is the kind of tag (or tags) needed by the RFC 3066 users. The language support (which actually correpond to the support of lingual virtual networks) must be consistant throughout the architecture, operations, applications, manufacturers, etc. or this means that languages which are the ways human beings to relate together would suffer from standard/patent originated divides. This is not acceptable technically and humanly.
An ontology describes the reality. A standard shapes it. We do not want tools to shape our behaviours, but their best techical support.
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