Re: draft-klensin-net-utf8-07

Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@Sun.COM> Fri, 25 January 2008 00:37 UTC

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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:37:25 -0800
From: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: draft-klensin-net-utf8-07
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Alfred H?nes wrote on 1/10/08 19:01 +0100:
> RFC 1641, (RFC 1642 -->) RFC 2152,
> and perhaps other early IETF I18N documents as well?
>
> In particular, the registrations for legacy representations of
> Unicode should be marked "deprecated" in the IANA charset registry;
> to this end, a substantive IANA Considerations section needs to be
> added to the draft.

I think these would distract from the primary focus of net-utf8.  However, they 
are good proposals and if you wrote them up in a separate document, it's very 
likely you could find a friendly area director to sponsor them ;-)

                - Chris