At 09:31 +0200 2002-05-15, Christian Galinski wrote:
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>So with full cautiousness, and nevertheless avoiding inflexibility
>just because of 'principles' (whose usefulness I do not deny at all,
>as I have - hopefully made clear), I would appreciate it, if we
>could vote in favour of an alpha-2 symbol for Hawaiian.

Then you (and I hear this from both representatives of the
"terminology camp") are saying you really are more interested in
principle than in practical preservation of data, and that we can
just go and stuff the agreement you have made. That being the case,
it seems that we in IETF will have to make other arrangements for
internet language tagging.
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