Thanks a lot for your feedback, answers below

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 7:53 PM Florian Weimer <fweimer_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> This proposal suggests to use the IANA Character Sets Registry.
>
> I had some concerns about the state of the registry, but I have been
> able to register the UTF-7-IMAP charset recently. It may have helped
> that it was specified in RFC 3501 in 2003 (but the corresponding IANA
> action had been omitted), and it is still in wide use today, without a
> deployed alternative. However, the basic process appears to be working,
> including MIB assignment.
>

I think it's a great thing knowing that extending the registry is still
possible.
The primary reason it's not extended often seem to be that there are few
encodings
used for interchange that are not yet registered in it - and new encodings
are rare
as utf-8 negates the need to come up with new encodings.

The reason we are going with this list and not something else is that:
To the best of my knowledge, it is by far the more complete one -
iso encodings are registered with IANA while the opposite isn't necessarily
true.
Notably, it was important that the list contain ebcdic encodings and
encodings that are used
in most environments that have a C++ compiler and/or can run C++ programs


>
> I can't comment on the feasibility from a ISO process perspective of
> using the IANA registry. ISO has its own character set registries,
> somewhere in the context of ISO 2022 and ISO 4873. It may be a
> nonnegotiable requirement that an ISO standard uses an existing ISO
> registry.
>

>From a wording perspective, IANA is not relevant - and not mentioned.
Instead, we refer to the RFC that describes the registry which describes
how the IANA registry works. There is precedent in the standard to mention
RFCs.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3808


I hope that answers your questions, let me know if you still have concerns!



>
> Thanks,
> Florian
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