[Ltru] ISO 3166-2 and GA-UK (original) (raw)

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Marion,

You are only adding to the confusion with your example. You call FI, NO,
SE and RU "email/webtags", which role they also have, admittedly. Since,
however, they are the actual ISO 3166 country codes, the speakers of the
S�mi communities get no special treatment in this context.

Sincerely, Erkki

Marion Gunn wrote:

> Scr�obh r&d afrac:
>
>>...
>>The confusion over "GB"/"UK" - for all this time, and still for a
>>while - is the same as for langtags...
>>
>
> Exactly!
>
> That is why the need that LTRU and IETF members support GA-UK.
>
> Irish language communities have every right to be angry with langtag
> controllers refusing us the same basic rights happily accorded to Saami
> communities (who are similarly spread over various dot FI, dot NO, dot
> RU and dot SE email/webtags).
>
> This should be easy - all it requires is goodwill across ISO members
> generally towards NSAI's and BSI's communities of Irish speakers.
>
> Right now (November 2005) langtag controllers oppose this, offering as
> their excuse that GA-UK would require ISO 3166-2 to be updtated, but, by
> the same logic, (with ISO 3166-2 currently being updated right now),
> they can support that right now, if they want to.
>
> It is that simple. In the above, I would especially welcome Harald's support.
>
> To recap (for non-Europeans), "UK of GB & NI" means exactly that and
> nothing more is required than to facilitate (via ISO 3166-2) assigning
> GA-UK to serve Irish speakers north of the border in my country,
> matching GA-IE south of it.
>
> I thank you for your attention in this matter.
> mg
>

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