[Foundation-l] Fw: Why we should use the community draft of the language proposal policy

[Jesse Plamondon-Willard]

Hello,

The current draft still has a few issues:

* It allows wikis for languages that have no written form.

* It allows every type of language except fictional, including
languages nobody uses for communication. For example, it allows wikis
is extinct languages, so long as some people learn to write or speak
it fluently. Even fictional languages are only excluded due to
"substantial opposition in the community", with no rational
explanation for the distinction between fluently-spoken artificial and
fluently-spoken extinct languages.

* The new requirements are vague and arbitrary, and essentially let
the subcommittee decide requests based on personal preference. They
exclude far less languages, but only because they're not concrete or
measurable.

The community draft is promising, but I don't think implementing it
while these issues are unaddressed would be beneficial.

-- 
Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)