RE: Tag characters

2015-05-19 Thread Peter Constable
Evidently there were more than two type of people. There are those who feel 50 years is long enough; there are others who feel that five years is long enough; there are likely others that feel 75 or 30 or some other values are long enough. Then there are also those who feel that any finite lengt

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-19 Thread Doug Ewell
William_J_G Overington wrote: >> Hopefully the MA will adhere to the new 50-year limit. > > What is MA please? Maintenance Agency: http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes.htm > A 50-year limit seems far too short a time. There are two types of people: those who feel 50 years is too

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-19 Thread William_J_G Overington
Doug Ewell wrote: > Hopefully the MA will adhere to the new 50-year limit. The example given in the proposal talked about trans-national flags. What is MA please? A 50-year limit seems far too short a time. With that figure, a document could have its meaning retrospectively changed at least

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-19 Thread Doug Ewell
Re: Tag characters Mark Davis ⛾ wrote: > A more concrete proposal will be in a PRI to be issued soon, and > people will have a chance to comment more then. I'll hold off on most other questions until the PRI appears. > The principal reason for 3 digit codes is because that is the > mechanism u

Re: Regexes, Canonical Equivalence and Backtracking of Input

2015-05-19 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-05-19 2:44 GMT+02:00 Richard Wordingham < richard.wording...@ntlworld.com>: > > Good books on the subjext are now becoming difficutlt to find (or > > they are more expensive now), and too difficult to use on the web > > (for such very technical topics, it really helps to have a printed > > co

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-19 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-05-19 7:18 GMT+02:00 Mark Davis ☕️ : > There is a difference between EU and UN; the former is in BCP47. That > being said, we could look at making the exceptionally reserved codes valid > for this purpose (or at least the UN code). It appears that there are only > 3 exceptionally reserved cod