IETF
"The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual. ... The IETF is an organized activity of the Internet Society." (IETF website)
"IETF develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standard bodies; and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite." (Wikipedia)
IETF has several working groups including in the area of language tags.
IETF and language tags
The IETF-languages list for discussion of language tags http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages
The Language Tag Registry Update (LTRU) is concerned with language subtag registry procedures.
References & links
- IETF http://www.ietf.org/
- IETF Mission Statement (RFC 3935) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3935.txt
- Wikipedia, "Internet Engineering Task Force"
- Wikipedia, "IETF language tag," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag
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