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To SIL International, c/o Peter Constable, As acting chairman I am pleased to inform you that the ISO 639 Registration Authorities' Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) has approved to add an expert representing SIL International to the JAC email mailing list as "liaison". The appointment is not for a defined period of time, but the JAC will review its membership at suitable intervals. This letter is sent to Peter Constable, who has already been added to the mailing list. However, it is up to SIL International to decide who they at any time wish to have as their "liaison" representative. The purpose of this action is to strengthen the expertise that is available for the JAC to fulfill its mandate to develop alpha-2 and alpha-3 language identifiers (currently ISO 639 parts 1 and 2). Also other aspects of language coding will be discussed on the JAC mailing list, but it is outside the scope of the JAC to make formal decisions on other issues (like language variant coding, etc.). Liaisons on the JAC email mailing list will be expected to participate in the discussions on the list, and to involve other experts in their organization when this seems appropriate. They will not be involved in the voting process, which is handled by a different mailing list. They will also not be called to JAC meetings. The JAC's home page is found at http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/iso639jac.html. I trust that this letter will be forwarded to persons within the SIL International organization. I wish SIL International welcome to the JAC mailing list. Best regards, Håvard Hjulstad ------------------------- Håvard Hjulstad mailto:[log in to unmask] Solfallsveien 31 NO-1430 Ås, Norway tel: +47-64944233 & +47-64963684 mob: +47-90145563 http://www.hjulstad.com/havard/ -------------------------