From lojban@audry2.com Wed Jun 28 20:47:12 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29757 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2000 03:47:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 29 Jun 2000 03:47:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO urban.iinet.net.au) (203.59.24.231) by mta1 with SMTP; 29 Jun 2000 03:47:10 -0000 Received: from muzak.iinet.net.au (muzak.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.237]) by urban.iinet.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA26741 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:47:07 +0800 Received: from fremantle.perth.ilink (reggae-03-111.nv.iinet.net.au [203.59.78.111]) by muzak.iinet.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA08193 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:47:06 +0800 Received: (from major@localhost) by fremantle.perth.ilink (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA27477; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:43:35 +0800 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:43:35 +0800 Message-Id: <200006290343.LAA27477@fremantle.perth.ilink> X-Mailer: GNU Emacs 20.6. -*- mail -*- To: lojban@egroups.com In-reply-to: <42.774362e.268b7439@aol.com> (pycyn@aol.com) Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Computing in lojbanistan References: <42.774362e.268b7439@aol.com> From: Major pycyn@aol.com writes: > Sometime within the last year (since I started keeping records) someone > assured us that 'lb' stood for Lojban in some ISO-long-string-of-numbers The only ISO-long-string-of-numbers I know of for language codes are ISO 639-1 (2 letter codes) and ISO 639-2 (3 letter codes). "lb" is Luxemburgish in ISO-639-1 Neither 639-1 nor 639-2 have a code for Lojban. The Library Of Congress is the registration authority for 639-2, details are available at http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/iso639jac.html The criteria for 639-2 registration is > [...] evidence that one agency holds 50 different documents in the > language or that five agencies hold a total of 50 different > documents among them in the language. Documents include all forms of > material and is not limited to text. If Lojban fits the criteria, registration could be online at http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/iso639-2form.html > Do these pronouncements change so rapidly? Once a code is allocated it is very rare for it to change. Major