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Re: [weirds] Internationalization Issues

Byron Ellacott <bje@apnic.net> Fri, 19 October 2012 00:40 UTC

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From: Byron Ellacott <bje@apnic.net>
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Hi Andy,

On 19/10/2012, at 3:30 AM, Andy Newton <andy@arin.net> wrote:

> On 10/12/12 12:04 AM, "Ning Kong" <nkong@cnnic.cn> wrote:
> 
>> IMHO, indicating language/script in response may be a potential missing
>> thing of i18n issues. I wonder whether the 7.3 section of
>> draft-sheng-weirds-icann-rws-dnrd-01 is worth being reconsidered and
>> covered
>> by the using-http draft.
> 
> 
> This sounds like a good idea. But is there any reference to an explanation
> of what client software is to do with these language tags?

Indicate to the end user that it's not a native language?  Auto-translate?  Negotiate for native language with Accepts-Language, if indicated as possible via a Vary header?

Some RDAP services will not support multiple languages meaningfully, but there are existing whois services that provide (non-standard, varying) ways to indicate a preferred language on query, with multiple language options available for many response fields.

  Byron

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