From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2006 - 08:55:47 CDT
Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft dot com> wrote:
>> The "JAC" in ISO 639 RA/JAC stands for "Joint Advisory Committee."
>> The word "joint" means just that: the standards within the ISO 639
>> family are closely coordinated, and are not in any way "competing."
>
> The standards are coordinated, but I believe that is not quite what
> "joint" means in that case. IIUC, it is called a "joint" committee
> because its makeup consists of representatives of two different
> technical committees: TC37 and TC46.
I stand corrected.
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ RFC 4645 * UTN #14
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