Re: [Ltru] Re: Test suite for language tags?

Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com> Thu, 31 August 2006 14:15 UTC

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I was thinking of an individual submission.

Addison

Martin Duerst wrote:
> [chair hat on]
> 
> We haven't put development of test suites into our new charter,
> but if you think this should be added, you should say so in
> response to the call for comments on the IETF list.
> 
> In my impression, test suites are often done in coordination
> with an IETF WG, but not usually as an official WG task. But
> my implession might be wrong. I don't think there is anything
> in the IETF process that would forbid a WG to develop a test
> suite, or to accept a test suite proposal as a WG draft.
> [Ted, can you tell us what/where the IETF rules re. test
> suites are?]
> 
> So I would in principle not be opposed to the WG (assuming we
> get rechartered) taking on a test suite internet draft, but
> we should be sure that this won't slow us down on our main
> deliverables.
> 
> Regards,    Martin.
> 
> 
> At 09:45 06/08/31, Addison Phillips wrote:
>>>> or better a separate document (informational RFC).  I often
>>>> miss examples and test cases in other documents.
>>> I agree and here are the two files I currently use (my parser succeeds
>>> for all these tags). I suggest that they should be displayed in a
>>> public place (is there a Web site for LTRU?) and added in a future
>>> RFC.
>> An informational RFC would be quite easy to produce and I think would be worthwhile. I'd even be willing to do some work on it in a couple of weeks.
>>
>>> I suggest that they should be displayed in a
>>> public place (is there a Web site for LTRU?)
>> As Frank points out, you could probably do worse than http://www.inter-locale.com. It has the HTML versions of the various drafts (not all are linked any more), plus other information. I'm happy to host other's materials, within reason.
>>
>> Addison
>>
>> -- 
>> Addison Phillips
>> Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
>>
>> Internationalization is an architecture.
>> It is not a feature.
>>
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> #-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
> #-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp     
> 

-- 
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.

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