Character set registration

[Pete Resnick <[e-mail]>]

>A Revised Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts


>directories. This draft is a work item of the Internet Message
Extensions 

>Working Group of the IETF.                                            
    

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>       Title     : Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part
Four: 

>                   Registration Procedures                            
    


I was looking through draft-ietf-822ext-mime-reg-02.txt with regard to
the character set registration issue. First, a typographical comment:
Section 5.2.1 refers to a <italic>four</italic> week period for review.
Section 5.2.2 refers to a <italic>two</italic> week period for review.
Which of these is correct?


Second, a procedural question: After this draft becomes an RFC, will
the currently existing character sets that appear in the Assigned
Numbers RFC be required to go through the review? As I remember, many
of them were registered en masse a long time ago, and most of them are
useless for (i.e. unrecognized by any) MIME application. I would hope
that such a house cleaning occurs.


pr

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