The thing is that what WE do makes less difference than what implementers do. But if the JAC decides to deprecate "scc" and "scr", that would in fact "mean" this: scc USE srp OR sr scr USE hrv OR hr Håvard ================================== Håvard Hjulstad mailto:[log in to unmask] ================================== -----Opprinnelig melding----- Fra: ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee [mailto:[log in to unmask]] På vegne av [log in to unmask] Sendt: 30. mai 2008 14:02 Til: [log in to unmask] Emne: Re: Request from Serbia to change bibliographic language codes in ISO 639-2 If we would have a "USE" function, like in thesauri, we could in the future indicate: scc USE: srp NOTE: until 2008 scc in bibliographic usage has been equivalent to srb in terminological usage. as from 2008 users are recommended to use srb for both purposes. Nevertheless users better make sure that their system can accept scc as equivalent e.g. in data exchange. Would this not be a practical solution? Best regards Christian