Representation (Re: Follow-up from Tuesday's discussion of digits in the)

Harald Alvestrand harald at alvestrand.no
Thu Dec 4 09:56:20 CET 2008


Alireza Saleh wrote:
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>> The people who are representing the script communities using those 3 
>> scripts have claimed that there is a problem to be solved at a 
>> protocol level.
>> No other script community has made such a claim.
>>   
>
> Just a quick comment. As a member of Arabic-Script community and 
> according to my previous emails,  I would like to say that we want to 
> resolve digit-mixing within the registry instead of the protocol. 
%hanks for that reminder!

The IETF is often accused of disregarding input from organized bodies 
and listening to only input from individuals that speak up in the IETF; 
your note is a good reminder that we need to not tilt the other way.

(I checked the idna-arabicscript list and see that you've been arguing 
the same position there, and so has the other person with a .ir address 
- so it's clear that the people representing the ASIWG to the IETF don't 
have an unanimous voice behind them.)

                Harald


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