Re: [I18ndir] Review volunteer needed (Fwd: [dispatch] WGLC of draft-ietf-dispatch-javascript-mjs-07)

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Thu, 30 April 2020 20:45 UTC

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--On Thursday, April 30, 2020 16:11 -0400 John R Levine
<johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

>...
>> (3) Other than the statement "Source text is expected to be in
>> Unicode Normalization Form C", there is apparently no
>> requirement that the underlying CCS be Unicode. ...
> 
> If there were some politically viable way to say it, I'd say
> to throw the entire draft away other than the IANA
> registrations and replace it with something written by someone
> who understands MIME and isn't totally embedded in the
> html/javascript/UCS world.

About that, we are definitely in agreement.

Out of time today to response to your other points.

  john