Revision of X.400 use of character sets

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald.t.alvestrand@delab.sintef.no> Wed, 17 March 1993 14:39 UTC

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From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald.t.alvestrand@delab.sintef.no>
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Subject: Revision of X.400 use of character sets
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(I sent this some days ago, but got zero copies back (expected 3) and
zero reactions, so I'm resending it. Tell me if you got it several days
ago!)


Hi, all
I'll have to clear this document out of the "todo" file soon now.
The technical content hasn't changed for some time, and comments have
been next to nothing, except for the language/charset part, which has
generally had the comments:

- Very useful, and needed (from non-linguists)
- Limited, wrong and likely to generate tons of debate (from linguists)

This means (to me) that the paths of the two parts are likely to
be very different:

- The "X.400 usage" will stay stable (ignored?)
- The language part will change, often and dramatically.

Therefore, I would like the WG chairs, members and godfathers of both
the RARE WG and the IETF WG bodies to consider the solution:

- Split the document into 2 RFCs, one without languages, the other
  with only languages
- Publish the first as a Proposed Standard and RTR now
- Review the second a couple of more times, and publish it as an
  *informational* RFC, likely to be superseded later.

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                        Harald Tveit Alvestrand

Revision of X.400 use of character sets Harald Tveit Alvestrand
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