Note that RFC 3066 (Tags for the Identification of Languages) has made RFC
1766 obsolete, so we should now refer to this new RFC in the Dublin
Core Language element. It can be found at:
http://search.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt?number=3066
What is significant in this revision is that if a language does not have a
2-character code assigned (ISO 639-1, previously ISO 639:1988), the
3-character code from ISO 639-2 is used.
This, of course would change the definition in DC 1.1, since it refers to
RFC1766. Since the NISO committee preparing the DC standard knew of this
impending change, the definition of the Language element (in ANSI/NISO
Z39.85) is slightly different than DC 1.1 so that the statement would be
accurate once RFC 3066 was published.
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