Subject: [Ltru] Re: draft-ietf-ltru-initial-00

From: "Doug Ewell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:44:20 -0700

Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy dot claranet dot de> wrote:

> More like a stupid question, we have two variants -1901 and
> -1996 resulting in two redundant tags de-1901 and de-1996.
>
> We also have six grandfathered tags de-AT-1901, de-CH-1901,
> de-DE-1901, de-AT-1996, de-CH-1996, de-DE-1996.
>
> By simply adding Prefix: de-AT, Prefix: de-CH, Prefix: de-DE
> to both 1901 and 1996 all eight tags would be redundant.
>
> Or are they already all redudant, no matter what the Prefix
> says ?

Not a stupid question at all.  I goofed.  All of the tags Frank listed
should be redundant.

The Prefix for a variant subtag doesn't have to include every subtag
that precedes it.  "de" as the Prefix for 1901 and 1996 also covers
de-AT, de-CH, de-DE, and
de-any-other-extended-language-or-script-or-region-that-needs-it.

Thanks to Frank for catching this.  That's why we need plenty of eyes to
look at this.  I've made the change in the file that will eventually
become draft-initial-01.

--
Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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