Re: [I18ndir] Time to revise RFC 2978 (charset registrations)?

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Tuesday, August 25, 2020 15:41 -0400 John Levine
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> In article <60280974B9488C6271DDB2D4@PSB> you write:
>> On the optimistic, but perhaps deluded, theory that this
>> directorate is still functional, perhaps we have some advice
>> for the ADs about what to do about this erratum and whether
>> it is time to revise RFC 2978 as suggested below?
> 
> You'd hope this would be pretty easy, wouldn't it.  Might be
> nice to update this part, too:
> 
>    Charset registrations will be posted in the anonymous FTP
> file
> "ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets"
> and all

Yep.  I didn't do a careful reading, partially because that felt
like step 3 as in

(1) Check here (and with Ned and, if he is not reading this,
Martin) and see if there are any reasons to not do so and if
there would be AD support for an AD-sponsored document with
minimum fuss.  That includes being sure that, if Alexey had some
reason for his "unlikely to be revised" statement that we
haven't considered, we know about it and can consider it.

(2) Probably also from this list, figure out whether a draft new
version would have sufficient reviewers who understand the
subject matter to make submission of such a revision draft
plausible.  If there are competent and willing reviewers around
W3C (use in media types) or other parts of the MIME community,
so much the better.  And see if Ned or the RFC Editor have the
XML of RFC 2978 or at least draft-freed-charset-regist-03 around.

(3) If there are positive answers at the first two steps, go
through the RFC carefully, fold in the errata, and clean out
obsolete statements (I have no idea if the "X-" issue is the
only one because I didn't look), dead references (such as the
one above), and similar things.  

Of the three, I think the third is actually the easiest.  On the
other hand, without having clear agreement about the
desirability of doing this and AD willingness to push it
through, I believe it would be a waste of time.

> Also willing to help smith what I'd hope would be a limited
> number of words.

Ack.  And thanks.

    john