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-----Original Message----- From: ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Michael Everson Sent: 24. april 2002 21:41 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: New ISO 639-1 identifier ? - Hawaiian The JAC made a promise and set a policy, and we developed our standard with faith in that promise. I am not very impressed to see you keep wanting to change this. <HHj> If "you" is me, you haven't seen me break the "promise" yet (although I don't think that "promise" is a suitable expression for the decision in question). I am merely doing my job as acting chair of the committee: Letting people discuss the issue. -- If "you" is all of us, we also haven't broken any "promise". </HHj> I say that holding the ballot at all would be invalid because it violates the agreed principles. <HHj> No, Michael. The JAC is free to vote on anything at any time, and as many times as it likes. Just as anyone is free to keep proposing alpha-2 identifiers. It just isn't necessary to stop the process. If you have any faith in the process and the people who are asked by the proper bodies to take care of the process, there should be no danger.</HHj> You are asking to wreck the entire thing, and to jeopardize internet data, and we argued this over and over again before the JAC decided to take a decision, and now you are trying to overturn that decision. That is wrong, Håvard. It is wrong. <HHj>Say that once more, and it might become true ...?? NO, I am not trying to wreck anything. And nothing will be wrecked as long as a proper democratic process is allowed to function.</HHj> Håvard