On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 6:43 AM Peter Brett via SG16 <sg16_at_[hidden]>
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> Hi Corentin,
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> As I understand it, it’s not the RFC that’s the concern (IETF are pretty
> good), it’s the IANA registry.
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As your original note indicated, the registry is maintained by procedures
set out in the RFC. Concerns with respect to the registry translate to
concerns with Section 3 of RFC 2978.


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> Peter
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> *From:* Corentin <corentin.jabot_at_[hidden]>
> *Sent:* 24 March 2020 10:42
> *To:* Peter Brett <pbrett_at_[hidden]>
> *Cc:* sg16_at_[hidden]; Roger Orr <rogero_at_[hidden]>;
> guy_at_[hidden]
> *Subject:* Re: UK national body concerns about P1885R1 'Naming Text
> Encodings to Demystify Them'
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> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 11:26, Peter Brett <pbrett_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Hi Corentin,
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> Thanks for replying so promptly! I personally agree that there is
> nothing more suitable available.
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> One of the suggestions that was made in the UK national body meeting was
> that there could be an International Standard nomenclature for text
> encodings, possibly as part of the Unicode effort. Do you think that it
> would be useful?
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> Maybe if people were still doing encodings a lot?
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> But non-unicode encodings need to be supported for existing system, not
> new systems... so I think such effort would be 30 years too late :)
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> Beside I do think a RFC is perfectly suitable. if it is good enough for
> tcp, it should be good enough for us too.
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> Peter
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> *From:* Corentin <corentin.jabot_at_[hidden]>
> *Sent:* 24 March 2020 09:35
> *To:* Peter Brett <pbrett_at_[hidden]>
> *Cc:* sg16_at_[hidden]; Roger Orr <rogero_at_[hidden]>;
> guy_at_[hidden]
> *Subject:* Re: UK national body concerns about P1885R1 'Naming Text
> Encodings to Demystify Them'
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> Hey!
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> Thanks for your feedback
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> A few things:
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> * It does not evolve a lot (Neither the database nor the proposal are
> forward looking - RFC3808 is from 2004)
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> * There is nothing more complete (or more official)
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> * It has vendor buy in (form Microsoft and IBM for which it maps to their
> code page), the same names are also used by iconv on unix system
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> * It is widely used by browsers, mail clients
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> * We have experience with referencing rfc in the standards.
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> * If this is still a concern, we could duplicate the entire thing in the
> standard - which I would recommend against.
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> That standard registry is pivotal to the proposal portability. we need to
> agree on names and meaning.
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> I hope that helps,
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> Regards,
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> Corentin
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> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 09:26, Peter Brett <pbrett_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Hi Corentin and SG16,
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> We discussed P1885R1 briefly in the British Standards Institute meeting
> yesterday.
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> We support the general direction of the paper and agree that it seeks to
> solve a real problem. We support further work.
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> We have significant concerns about the proposal to rely on the IANA
> registry and RFC2978/RFC3808 process, including a normative reference to
> the Character Sets database. The Character Sets database is not an
> International Standard and is maintained by a process that appears to
> provide neither the quality assurance nor the checks and balances built
> into the ISO process.
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> Best regards,
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> Peter
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