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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Peter wrote:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"> As the OTL feature tag registry was
set up _<i>as a registry</i>_, I have taken that to mean <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"> that new feature tag requests may
be subject to technical review for refinement but, <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"> unless a requested tag is really
not well formed or very obviously flawed, that it’s not <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"> subject to any kind of veto...</div>
<p>That's a not unreasonable interpretation of the way a registry
could or should work, but so far as I know there is no formal
statement to that effect, particularly with regard to the registry
of OTL features (and script tags, and language system tags, and
variation axis tags) as maintained by Microsoft.<br>
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<p>JH<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
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