I understand your point, Peter. However,
I think retired code elements that have been included in macrolanguage
groups should be handled separately, or at least in distinction from current
mappings. They may require a separate table, or alternatively, an indication
of retired status in the one mapping table.
Re: The 2007 round of changes for Part
3 have been decided
Joan: you removed the macrolanguage
mapping from cxx (Northern Zhuang) to zha (Zhuang), evidently because cxx
has been retired. I would not have thought that retiring an ID causes the
macrolanguage mapping to go away. If there are existing uses of cxx and
zha, those should not be affected apart from a recommendation to transition
from using cxx to other, more granularly-divided IDs. This represents a
stability problem: we don’t want to make changes that can invalidate existing
usage.
In general, I’m inclined
to think that macrolanguage mappings should rarely if ever be removed once
defined.
Peter
From: ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joan Spanne
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:49 AM
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Subject: The 2007 round of changes for Part 3 have been decided
Dear JAC,
The decisions for most of the 258 change requests submitted for the 2007
round have been finalized, and are summarized in the attached report. The
same report is posted on the home page of the 639-3 site. There are 10
remaining requests that are not yet decided, one of which relates to a
ISO 639-2 code element (was being considered as a macrolanguage possibility),
another which should probably be considered by the whole JAC. For the other
eight, I would appreciate the input of members of the JAC, as well. For
some of them, I have additional research information, which I will forward
in separate memos.
All the requests still pending can be seen at:
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_requests.asp
(you will see that there is still the matter of Medieval Greek still pending;
I will revive discussion on that shortly, once "other" collections
is finished)
Thanks,
Joan Spanne
ISO 639-3/RA
SIL International
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