[Foundation-l] Community draft of language proposal policy

[Tim Starling]

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> The RFC4646 is even more restrictive then the ISO-639-3. This RFC is imho of
> little value for our purposes. I think what you  have written demonstrates
> that you do not know that much about the subject.

The BCP 47 series has always used the most recent version of ISO 639. And
RFC 4646 makes several references to reserving space for future
developments in ISO 639. And it reserves all three-letter codes. RFC 4646
predates ISO 639-3. I think we can use a defacto merger of ISO 639-3 and
BCP 47 while we are waiting for the next RFC to come out.

In fact, that is exactly what we have been doing with MediaWiki language
codes since the release of ISO 639-3. For Internet protocols, it's not a
choice of one or the other, BCP 47 is the only game in town.

-- Tim Starling