Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset reviewer
Terje Bless <link@pobox.com> Thu, 07 September 2006 17:40 UTC
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From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset reviewer
To: Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>
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[ My apologies for replying to a reply ] Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> wrote: >>I wonder if we are reaching the point at which a stronger "use Unicode on >>the wire" recommendation would be in order. The implications of such a >>recommendation would presumably include a 2978bis that made the requirements >>for registration of a new charset _much_ tougher, e.g., requiring a >>demonstration that the then-current version of Unicode cannot do the >>relevant job and/or evidence that the newly-proposed charset is needed in >>deployed applications. The time is, IMO, certainly ripe for pushing UTF-8 much stronger, but the place to do so is *not* at IANA — the registry of assigned names and numbers; protocol values — but rather in the development of new specifications. Not even the Unicode Consortium envisions a mass conversation of all legacy content into, say, UTF-8. The IANA registry's documentary function is quite orthogonal to the desire to avoid defining new charsets or mandating or even just enabling legacy charsets in new specifications. If a charset exists it should, modulo other factors, be registered with IANA. -- Everytime I write a rhyme these people thinks its a crime I tell `em what's on my mind. I guess I'm a CRIMINAL! I don't gotta say a word I just flip `em the bird and keep goin, I don't take shit from no one. I'm a CRIMINAL!
- Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset rev… John C Klensin
- Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset reviewer Ted Hardie
- Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset rev… John C Klensin
- Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset rev… Tim Bray
- Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset rev… Ned Freed
- Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset rev… Keith Moore
- Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset rev… Tim Bray
- Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset rev… Ned Freed
- Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset rev… Bruce Lilly
- Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset rev… Keld Jørn Simonsen
- Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset rev… Terje Bless
- Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset rev… Mark Davis
- Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset rev… Martin Duerst
- Problems (and non-problems) in charset registry (… Martin Duerst
- Re: Problems (and non-problems) in charset regist… Ned Freed