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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:30:49 +0200
To: "Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com>, <ietf@ietf.org>
From: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@jefsey.com>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] RE: RFC 3066 bis Libraries list
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At 17:04 12/09/2005, Peter Constable wrote:
> > From: JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [mailto:jefsey@jefsey.com]
> > Dear Peter,
> > whatever the way you want to say it, these libraries have now to meet
> > new specs they had not to meet before.
>
>I cannot say whether every existing software library written to conform
>to RFC 3066 *has to* meet new specs. Certainly there will some, perhaps
>many, that would be benefit from revision to the new specs.

Dear Peter,
The target is end to end interoperability between users/processes of 
non-English language. Users of every library MUST know to which 
extent the library they use fits the job or not, which alternative 
they can use. They should have a verification procedure to check 
their libraries depending on what they want. They should know how 
their software behaves when analysing specific langtag.

For example, _some_ documentation is given by 
http://library.n0i.net/programming/perl/ac_tive/lib/I18N/LangTags/List.html. 
It is not strictly complying with any of the RFCs, nor giving the 
source code. That kind of information is a minimum.

>If that was your intent, it would have been clearer to me had you asked
>people to identify libraries they feel should be revised if the new spec
>is adopted.

You think some should escape the check? I do not know. I was 
expecting from you, from the authors, from the members of the 
WG-ltru, the list of all the libraries you know (URLs). You say they 
cannot support the users needs I presented, neither my big initial 
request to support to  additional subtags (referent and context) nor 
even to support RFC documented URI-tags (a hook of a dedicated library?)

jfc





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