JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: > From the input of Doug Ewell its _initial_ version withISO 639-6 will > include 40.000 lines. I never said that. I would not make any statement about ISO 639-6 when the data is not available. I said that the deltas for the initial version with ISO 639-*3* would add up to 35,700 lines -- and yes, that would put the grand total at over 40,000 lines. It's hard to follow this line of argument that a registry with 7,600 languages would be too large, and simultaneously that it should instead support 20,000 languages, unles the object is to do away with the registry altogether and have everyone invent new tags on the fly. What good would such nonce tags be? -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf