PS. le cur le mo thcht thíos. Gabhaim pardún agaibh as ucht an Bhéarla, ach
ní léir dom bealach ar bith eile chun sampla beacht a thabhairt do Vincent
et al. den saghas "clár gnó" a leagtar roimh ghrúpaí oibre mar
NSAI/AGITS/WG6 (nárbh eol dóibh a leithéid a bheith ann go dtí seo).

Bítear ag súil, mar shampla, go gcuirfeadh na baill suim i dteangacha
éagsúla a chéile, agus riachtanais ríomhaireachta, clárú cód san áireamh, á
socrú, seachas a bheith de shíor i mbun scrúdú imleacáin. Ba mhór an
chabhair dúinn an dá Shéamas, Vincent, agus/nó na daoine eile a mhol
Vincent (Aonghus Ó hAlmhain, Seán Mac Suibhne agus Antaine Mac an Fhaillí)
a bheith freagrach as obair fhada fhadálach chasta NSAI/AGITS/WG6 a roinnt.
mg

===== sampla as bosca poist an lae inniu =====
Subject:
          splitting of hairs over language identifiers
    Date:
          Tue, 04 Jul 2000 10:45:47 +0900
   From:
          "Martin J. Duerst" <[log in to unmask]>
      To:
          [log in to unmask]
     CC:
          Mike Brown <[log in to unmask]>

I recently got the following mail from Mike Brown <[log in to unmask]>,
and would like to forward it here with the permission of the author.
 >>>>>>>>
Martin,

http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTML-tags.html

"HTML and XML rely on RFC 1766 to define language codes."
[...]
"The list of ISO-639 two-letter language codes is provided
by the ISO 639-2 Registration Authority (Library of Congress,
USA). [...] Please note changes, in particular those in 1989
(withdrawing iw, in, and ji, replacing them by he, id, and yi,
and adding se, iu, ug, and za)."

While I agree that changes should be noted, the language of RFC 1766 is such
that it must be explicitly superceded in order to accommodate changes in the
version of ISO 639 it normatively references, which is ISO 639:1988, the
first edition. I believe the same thing applies to its normative reference
to ISO 3166:1988.

That HTML and XML refer to RFC 1766 and not its successors is another
oversight that requires pedantic validators to enforce that the codes be
from an unchanging 12 year old list.

I chose on http://www.skew.org/xml/links/ to list these references instead
of the current ones.

http://ftp.std.com/obi/Standards/ISO/ISO_3166
http://ftp.std.com/obi/Standards/ISO/ISO_639

    - Mike
<<<<<<<<

It is indeed true that RFC 1766 just points to ISO 639:1988.
On the other hand, at least some people (including me) have
assumed that updates to the registry can/should be used.
What was the original intent? What is actual practice?

Regards,   Martin.

=====
> Is ait liom é sin, mar mholadh, mar tá a leithéid de ghrúpa ann cheana (grúpa
> oifigiúil ag feidhmiú le blianta anuas faoi choimirce NSAI, a bhfuil baill
> eile de liostaí éagsúla na nGael páirteach ann, rud a shíl mé a bhí ar eolas
> ag cuid de na daoine a luann tú thuas). Níl ort ach glaoch ar NSAI chun
>clárú mar
> bhall den ghrúpa sin, arb é a theideal oifigiúil AGITS/WG6. NB. Ciallaíonn
> "WG""grúpa oibre", seachas brúghrúpa casaoide/polaitíochta). Ar ndóigh, ní
> fhágann sin nach féidir leat grúpa(í) eile a bhunú, neamhspleách ar fad ar
> NSAI, más maith leat.
mg

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Marion Gunn <[log in to unmask]>