Re: [ftpext] OPTS UTF8 needs work (...probably in FTPEXT2)

"William F. Maton" <wmaton@ottix.net> Sat, 06 August 2011 17:46 UTC

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On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote:

> I've recently found the draft of FTPEXT WG: 
> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-ftpext-utf-8-option-00.txt.  It specifies 
> the mechanism to negotiate the use of UTF-8 encoded pathnames in FTP.  To my 
> knowledge, this option is currently implemented by many applications, but 
> still remain undocumented.  In order to fill this gap, I'd like to propose 
> the FTPEXT2 WG to undertake the effort to reopen the work on the document. 
> Any thoughts?

All,
 	I have spoken privately with Gregory Lundberg regarding this draft 
and has no problem haviong it revived.  He'd say so himself were it not 
for him being preoccupied with other things of a personal nature.

wfms