Subject: [Ltru] Re: Can't add a Preferred-Value to a redundant tag

From: "Doug Ewell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:19:49 -0700

John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:

>> Tag: sgn-US
>> Description: Sign Language as used in the USA
>> Comments: originally registered for ASL. "sgn-ase" is
>>   recommended for that meaning.
>
> That's as much as to say the original meaning is deprecated.  So let's 
> say so openly, and supply the new tag for that meaning using the 
> mechanism designed for that, namely Preferred-Value.

To clarify: I greatly prefer this solution, whereby if we want to 
recommend one tagging solution over another, we use the Deprecated and 
Preferred-Value fields invented for that purpose.  But if this is 
unacceptable to Addison and others for some reason, I can live with the 
Comments approach.

--
Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
RFC 4645  *  UTN #14 

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