[Ltru] Re: UTF-8

McDonald, Ira wrote:

> I support changing to unescaped UTF-8 for the registry

I'm opposed.

> (consistent with the IESG policy in BCP 18 / RFC 2277).

That's about new protocols, not text/plain files like
RFCs or the LTRU registry.

> if we move to XML with IANA concurrence, we'll get UTF-8
> anyway.

Several issues here:  Where does the "IANA will convert
everything to XML" rumour come from?  I saw no discussion
about this on the XML-dir list.  Numerous RFCs define
registries with text/plain registration templates, if
those templates are anything it's a kind of "record-jar".

IANA can't simply reformat all their registries when they
feel like it.

XML is perfectly able to support any charset.  UTF-16 and
UTF-8 are only the minimally supported encodings.  With
the required UTF-8 support implementations not supporting
US-ASCII would be odd.  For something like xml2rfc stupid.

Frank

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