IDNs and Language definitions and labeling (was: RE: New
version, draft-faltstrom-idnabis-tables-02.txt, available)
Debbie Garside
debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk
Fri Jun 22 15:32:56 CEST 2007
JFC wrote:
> May I suggest you also to read the ICANN ICP-3 document and
> its annexes...
Thanks for the reference, I will look it up.
Debbie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JFC Morfin [mailto:jefsey at jefsey.com]
> Sent: 22 June 2007 14:10
> To: Debbie Garside; klensin at jck.com; everson at evertype.com;
> 'Patrik Fdltstrvm'
> Cc: idna-update at alvestrand.no; gerard.lang at insee.fr
> Subject: RE: IDNs and Language definitions and labeling (was:
> RE: New version, draft-faltstrom-idnabis-tables-02.txt, available)
>
> At 12:12 22/06/2007, Debbie Garside wrote:
> >However, I can see that my ideas for allocating Unicode code
> points to
> >the writing systems within ISO 639-6 does not meet the objectives of
> >this particular forum;
>
> Debbie,
> your ideas are a need. But how, when, and where for the IETF
> is another story.
>
> May I suggest you also to read the ICANN ICP-3 document and
> its annexes (in particular by John Klensin). This is the
> nearest thing we have from a market demand analysis the IETF
> WG-IDNA Charter requested as a pre-requisite. At the time
> choices were made because some concepts seemed to oppose,
> that experience, analysis, and debate could show otherwise (I
> think in particular to the UC class of John, that several
> projects I know of are contemplating or actually deploying,
> in a way that is actually transparent to the current
> operations) [I am bound by professionnal non-disclosure but
> they are easy to roughly imagine/indentify]
>
> What you say is not far from ccTLD tables. This work of yours
> is encouraged by the WSIS action pan (C8.23.o). But remember
> there is a coopetition between the normative (you),
> algorithmic (patrick), and linguistic (michael) points of
> view, that IMHO John can properly help to organise and that
> ISO 3166-1:2006 provided an applied example of how to
> use/extend it in a multilingual environment.
>
> In this, the rigidity of your ISO NWIP can be a temporay fix
> to Michael's and Patrick's objections in replacing an
> algorithm by a (large well designed) table, but will be a
> problem if it is not quickly encapsulated into a more general
> (Patrick) and adaptative
> (Michael) clearly defined (you) system.
>
> jfc
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
More information about the Idna-update
mailing list