Re: I18N-ACTION-1080: Ping unicode about establishing a langtag online subtag reference

Felix,

Martin's question highlights another issue, one of possible
(likely, I think) confusion between two, apparently similar,
registries hosted by different organizations.  I hate to suggest
this given the very sorry state of i18n work in the IETF, but
wouldn't it make more sense to ask the IETF to have IANA set up
a registry for this purpose with appropriate cross references
between the two?

And, FWIW, I may misunderstand part of your comment but I have
no idea what it means for a standards body to endorse a
collection of proprietary services.

   john


--On Friday, September 17, 2021 10:28 +0200 Felix Sasaki
<felix@sasakiatcf.com> wrote:

> Hello Martin,
> 
> The action item is not about language subtags but about
> language tags.
> 
> The RDF community has developed several (non standardized) Web
> services that provide information about languages and related
> information, see e.g. http://lexvo.org/
> The information is accessible as RDF, with unique URIs for
> languages. The unique URIs are also cited in standards like
> DCAT.
> 
> Such services are proprietary. The idea of this action item is
> to consider a service, hosted and endorsed by a standards
> body, providing URIs for languages.
> 
> Best
> 
> Felix
> 
> On Fri, 17 Sept 2021 at 09:28, Martin J. Dürst
> <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
>> I'm somewhat confused by this action item. There is the
>> official subtag registry at
>> 
>> https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/lan
>> guage-subtag-registry
>> 
>> Why would Unicode have to get involved?
>> 
>> Regards,   Martin.
>> 
>> On 2021-09-16 23:11, Internationalization Working Group Issue
>> Tracker wrote:
>> > I18N-ACTION-1080: Ping unicode about establishing a langtag
>> > online
>> subtag reference
>> > 
>> > https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/1080
>> > 
>> > Assigned to: Addison Phillips
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
>>

Received on Friday, 17 September 2021 13:42:06 UTC