So, I'm a little lost on how this concept solves the original problem here. A free-form field means these users could continue to identify as a part of Albania. Isn't that more divisive and controversial than allowing Kosovo into the list? I assume it's long-settled that we won't use ISO's short name for Taiwan?
The only advantage I see is that we can point things elsewhere, potentially at the expense of effectiveness (see comments about the problems with the old free form entry). -- Mike On 25 May 2015 at 16:31, Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 5/25/15 11:43 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote: > > > >> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Mike Connor <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> The origin of this thread was from a legacy entry that mis-identified > >>> Kosovo as a part of Albania. I don't think that passes any reasonable > >>> sniff test. > >>> > >> > >> And yet people clearly want to not change it. > >> > > > > That's because the only other remotely sensible choice we gave them is to > > change to identifying Kosovo as a part of Serbia. If we gave them the > > option of identifying Kosovo as part of neither, and _then_ they > continued > > to identify as part of Albania, then we could have a discussion about how > > to handle that. But that's not the situation we're in right now. Given > > the situation we _are_ in, I can totally understand the reluctance to > > change. All this has been mentioned in this thread before, so bringing > up > > the "but they don't want to change" thing in this context is odd. > > > > Sorry, it was like 50 messages back and I missed it when I skimmed to catch > up with the thread. With that said, I don't think it's at all hard to > anticipate that we will run into hard cases. > > > > > > Anyway, it seems to me like we have a proposal on the table (Ehsan's) > that > > you're happy with. For the record, I'm happy with it too. > > > Yes, I can live with it. > > -Ekr > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
