Re: request from HTTP draft editors for charset registration element

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

> (I'm told this is the right list to comment on MIME registration
> procedures, e.g., draft-ietf-822ext-mime-reg-03.txt).

> In the course of preparing the HTTP 1.1 draft, we wanted to suggest
> some preferred names for charsets as registered by IANA.

The concept of a "primary name" whose use is preferred over any other
name has been part of the draft procedure for some time. I think this
meets your criteria for a preferred name.

> Right now, charsets are registered with many aliases. However, for use
> in HTTP, all of the aliases are really cumbersome. We would like
> senders to preferentially send

> 	ISO-8859-1

> instead of any of the other aliases for that charset.

> Is this a possibility?

See above -- I think it is already a done deal. (Unless someone objects,
of course.)

> Where is the revised charset registration specification, since it
> isn't in reg-03?

It has been submitted as an I-D and should be out shortly.

				Ned