Dave Singer scripsit: > This spec. should unambiguously allow me to extract the language, > country, script etc., It does (and RFC 3066 does not). > should say under what circumstances two > sub-tags of any type match, state the obvious that two tags exactly > match if they have the same sub-tags and they all match, that partial > perfect matches (of tags with differing numbers of sub-tags) are > possible and may be applicable, and that the use of imperfect matches > (in which not all sub-tags match) has to be application-specific. Except for the point that tags match if they are (case-insensitively) identical, which is already made, we don't believe that any of these other things can be normatively enunciated. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! John Cowan <jcowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer) _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf