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I might not have been clear enough in my previous message: I haven't activated the domain www.iso639.org at all, and I don't plan to do so on my own. The main purpose of buying the domain was to avoid a "competing" ISO639 domain, although I realize that we can still get that, given that iso639.net, iso639.com, and iso639.info have been bought by someone else. I will most certainly not establish an information resource that intends to compete with the LoC site. However, the LoC site has a rather cryptic address, and it isn't always very practical to give out that address (you don't expect people to remember http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/iso639jac.html, while http://www.iso639.org/ is very much more suitable in that respect). As you all know, ISO/TC37/SC2 is planning (working with) new parts of ISO 639. We might see drafts of ISO 639-3 and ISO 639-4 during this year. It is no problem that information relating to all these parts and activities are residing on different web servers, but I do find it potentially useful to have a common portal to all this information. In case one should agree on it, it would also not at all be any problem for different organizations to upload information to a possible www.iso639.org site. Most of my web sites are residing on different computers in the US. Geography is no issue here. To summarize: I am NOT planning to make an ISO 639 web site on my own, competing with other sites. I have just secured a domain name, and I am asking: Do we wish to use that domain for something? Best regards, H�vard ------------------------- H�vard Hjulstad mailto:[log in to unmask] Chairman ISO/TC37 (Terminology and other language resources) Convener of ISO/TC37/SC2/WG1 (Language coding) Acting chairman of ISO 639 RA-JAC Solfallsveien 31 NO-1430 �s, Norway tel: +47 64963684 & +47 64944233 mob: +47 90145563 http://www.hjulstad.com/havard/ -------------------------