[I18nrp] Was there ever a formal I18N directorate?

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

Dear I18Ners,

We're running off the edge of history for most of the IESG, but you folks
would know the answer to this.

There have been a few references to an Internationalization Directorate, as
if one existed in the past.

I know about the IAB's (now-concluded) Internationalization Program, mostly
because I was on the IAB when we created it, but I don't remember an actual
IETF Internationalization Directorate.

That's not surprising - I've done a lot of work on binary protocols, and
much less on anything that would be internationalized - but no one on the
BOF coordination call(*) this week could remember if the IETF ever having
that specific thing.

Have we?

Thanks in advance for clues ...

Spencer

(*) to be fair, not all the IESG and IAB were able to participate in the
BOF coordination call, but most of us were present.