Re: [I18nrp] Additional input needed for i18nRP BOF

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 10:29:26PM -0500, Adam Roach wrote:
> >Regardless of what the answer to that is, it might be possible to start
> >small and scale up.  Starting small means triaging more demurely.  At
> >any rate, starting small is probably the only realistic way to get
> >started.  But there's no point starting small if we can't scale up, so
> >we do need to have some idea of how big to scale, and how.
> 
> This sounds reasonable, and is pretty much what I had in mind when I said
> "volunteers who are willing and able to educate themselves into being
> experts". I say this while agreeing with John about the complexities and
> subtleties of this topic.

That's fair.  Directorate members' I18N expertise might vary, with some
better able to review email- or DNS-related I-Ds, and others better able
to review filesystem- or web-related I-Ds.  I18N is a fairly big topic,
and I wouldn't expect every directorate member's expertise to be
sufficient to review every comer.

Also, John notes that reasonable people can and do disagree regarding
various I18N issues, so we can probably expect some of that from the
directorate.  I hope directorate members can recognize and acknowledge
which aspects are more objective and which more subjective.  Still, I
believe a lot of I18N issues are basic and can be dealt with objectively
at this point, so a directorate should be helpful.

Nico
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