I agree that "ftp://" is entirely different from "ftp.wikipedia.org". But I still don't think that we should abandon stability because a Web site, even Wikipedia, chooses to mix ISO 639 IDs in the same distribution position with "www" and "ftp" as sub-domain names. If ISO 3166 were to go changing their IDs (alpha 2 or alpha 3) for such reasons, we would rightly criticize them for not being stable. Same with other standards.
Peter
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From: ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
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Subject: Re: ISO-639 code 'www'
On 22 Jul 2011, at 18:38, Peter Constable wrote:
> I agree with Havard completely. And I do not think that Michael has refuted any of my points. (He had said, 'Peter's example "ftp://" is not relevant', though I was basically saying the same thing: that labels appearing in those protocol elements are not a problem.)
ftp:// is entirely different from ftp.wikipedia.org
www:// is meaningless in every context.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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