Re: [I18nrp] Was there ever a formal I18N directorate?

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

Also top posting and uncharacteristically short :-) ...

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 2:29 PM John C Klensin <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Spencer,
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> Top post and uncharacteristically short message:
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> I don't think so although it was discussed a few times.
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> The reason, IIR, is that, during the times when it was
> discussed, we typically had an active or very recently concluded
> WG (and only one) focused on core i18n issues and rarely more
> than one such WG at the time.   If the IESG needed advice, they
> could refer the questions to that WG (something they have always
> been able to do) and be reasonably sure that they could get a
> competent response.  Only in recent years have there been signs
> of so little energy that such a referral would have low odds of
> producing useful results.
>

I'm not surprised by that - I just wanted to understand the history of what
the IETF has done.

Thanks much.

Spencer

    john
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> --On Thursday, June 7, 2018 12:49 -0500 Spencer Dawkins at IETF
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> > Dear I18Ners,
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> > We're running off the edge of history for most of the IESG,
> > but you folks would know the answer to this.
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> > There have been a few references to an Internationalization
> > Directorate, as if one existed in the past.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > Have we?
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> > Thanks in advance for clues ...
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> > Spencer
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> > (*) to be fair, not all the IESG and IAB were able to
> > participate in the BOF coordination call, but most of us were
> > present.
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