Re: [precis] WGLC: draft-ietf-precis-framework-09.txt

["Martin J. Dürst" <[e-mail]>]

On 2013/10/10 6:05, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> Here is proposed text (for the end of section 9.5):
>
>     The challenges inherent in supporting the full range of Unicode code
>     points has in the past led some to hope for a way to programmatically
>     negotiate more restrictive ranges based on locale, script, or other
>     relevant factors.  As a general-purpose internationalization
>     technology, the PRECIS framework does not include such a negotiation
>     mechanism.

Mostly fine up to here, except that in this area, not only negotiation 
mechanisms, but also augmenting the identifiers themselves with 
language/locale information are regularly wished for. Using a specific 
example, that chat[English] and chat[French] would be two separate 
identifiers. We should also clearly warn against this.


>                 Applications requiring a tighter binding to the user's
>     linguistic environment might need to develop extensions to the PRECIS
>     framework, or special-purpose internationalization technologies.

I don't like this, because it essentially says "we don't do this, but 
you may well want to do it". It's something that makes a lot of sense 
e.g. in a content management system. But it does not make sense, and we 
shouldn't give the impression that it does, in the context of 
identifiers and similar stuff (even the PRECIS "FreeformClass" is about 
identifiers, not about content.


Regards,   Martin.