Re: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset reviewer

[Tim Bray <[e-mail]>]

On Sep 6, 2006, at 11:45 AM, John C Klensin 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.

Yes, please.  Unicode is not perfect, but it's actually very good in  
quite a few different ways, and network effects have pretty well  
taken over, so if you're doing any text on the network at all, it's  
almost certainly the right thing to use Unicode.

As a Certified Unicode Bigot(tm) I would volunteer to help with such  
a redraft.

  -Tim