zh-Hant-xx, zh-Hans-xx
Addison Phillips
addison.phillips at quest.com
Wed Mar 16 18:51:10 CET 2005
(In the interest of consensus) I also support these.
Addison P. Phillips
Globalization Architect, Quest Software
Chair, W3C Internationalization Core Working Group
Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Misha Wolf
> Sent: mercredi 16 mars 2005 09:45
> To: IETF Languages Discussion
> Subject: RE: zh-Hant-xx, zh-Hans-xx
>
> I support these applications.
>
> Misha
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Mark Davis
> Sent: 16 March 2005 17:41
> To: IETF Languages Discussion; Michael Everson
> Subject: Re: zh-Hant-xx, zh-Hans-xx
>
> Here is the message from James. There must have been some problem in email,
> since you are included in the address list.
>
> I don't know what else you want as far as concensus. I strongly favor
> these,
> and a number of others have spoken out in favor of them.
>
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Seng" <james at seng.cc>
> To: "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>
> Cc: "Peter Constable" <petercon at microsoft.com>; "James Seng"
> <jseng at pobox.org.sg>; <lee at cnnic.cn>; "Mark Davis"
> <mark.davis at unicode.org>;
> <mao at cnnic.cn>; "Yao Jiankang" <yaojk at cnnic.cn>
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 11:48
> Subject: Re: Status of zh-* proposals
>
>
> Jiankang,
>
> The purpose of zh-* proposals started because Mark Davis have a whole
> set of Chinese documents needed to be encoded but does not fall exactly
> into zh-tw, zh-cn, etc.
>
> This was 2-3 years back and I believe several Unicode experts have been
> consulted - check with Joe Zhang.
>
> In short, I support the current zh-* into the IANA registries. The
> purpose for those tags have little to do with IDN.
>
> And I agree with Michael - Morfin does not know what he is talking
> about.
>
> ps: I am still the SC2 representative for Singapore and also for WG2
> and IRG and for Morfin to suggest I am not qualified, he is obviously
> out of line.
>
> -James Seng
>
> On 08-Mar-05, at AM 03:35, Michael Everson wrote:
>
> > Dear Yao Jiankang,
> >
> > At 03:16 +0800 2005-03-08, Yao Jiankang wrote:
> >> Dear JEF and Michael,
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot for JEF's comments. It is unwise to register
> >> Microsoft as the
> >> Referent of the Chinese languages in the IANA tables.
> >
> > I'm sorry to say so, but Mr Morfin doesn't have any idea what he is
> > talking about. I am copying three experts here who *can* talk sensibly
> > about these matters.
> >
> >> CNNIC under Chinese Academy of Sciences is authorized by state
> >> government and a non-profit organization which will be the best
> >> represenative in IANA for Chinese language tables.
> >>
> >> Now I am specilizing IDN and Internationalization of email address
> >> which are
> >> also have relative to Chinese Language Tables.
> >>
> >> I also copy the letter to MAO Wei (General Director of CNNIC)and
> >> LEE Xiaodong
> >> (leader of technic department of CNNIC)for information.
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot!
> >>
> >>
> >> Yao Jiankang
> >> CNNIC
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ÔÚÄúµÄÀ´ÐÅÖÐÔø¾-Ìáµ½:
> >>> From: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey at jefsey.com>
> >>> Reply-To:
> >>> To: michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
> >>> Subject: Re: Status of zh-* proposals
> >>> Date:Sun, 06 Mar 2005 05:31:33 +0100
> >>>
> >>> On 22:13 05/03/2005, Michael Everson said:
> >>> >At 13:01 -0800 2005-03-05, Doug Ewell wrote:
> >>> >>I was wondering about the status of the 10 proposals submitted a
> >>> month
> >>> >>ago by Mark Davis, for tags of the form zh-{Hans, Hant}-{CN, HK,
> >>> MO, SG,
> >>> >>TW}.
> >>> >
> >>> >>In any case, it should be possible to demonstrate, using these
> >>> book
> >>> >>references or otherwise, that (for instance) zh-TW differs from
> >>> zh-HK,
> >>> >>that both can be and are written in either Hans or Hant, and that
> >>> there
> >>> >>is a need to tag all four of these situations.
> >>> >
> >>> >I would like Mark and Peter to get James Seng's explicit view on
> >>> this, for
> >>> >instance. He knows a lot about IDN, and about Chinese.
> >>>
> >>> Dear Michael,
> >>> I did not want to say this on the public list, but I do not think
> >>> it is a
> >>> good idea for this list and for the IANA to ask James Seng to talk
> >>> on
> >>> behalf of China. Nor to register Microsoft as the Referent of the
> >>> Chinese
> >>> languages in the IANA tables. I even feel both are highly
> >>> inapropriate.
> >>>
> >>> I gave you the list of the ccTLD Managers for the countries IBM and
> >>> Microsoft want to be the Referent of the language. I can only
> >>> repeat my
> >>> strong advise that you contact their ccTLD Managers first, as the
> >>> IESG
> >>> registration adviser for the IANA language tag registry. By
> >>> courtesy and
> >>> out of respect for their national sovereignty and for the authority
> >>> as the
> >>> trustee of their local communities.
> >>> jfc
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
> >
>
>
>
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>
> To: "IETF Languages Discussion" <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 09:22
> Subject: Re: zh-Hant-xx, zh-Hans-xx
>
>
> > Mark, I do not have a record of discussion from James on this matter,
> > nor have I seen the consensus that I asked for from the IETF list.
> >
> > At 07:07 -0800 2005-03-16, Mark Davis wrote:
> > >You indicated that you were waiting on feedback from James Seng before
> > >approving these. He supplied his feedback, which was in favor. We need
> to
> > >get a resolution on these, and it is well past the two week period
> specified
> > >in http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt.
> > >
> > >Could you please let us know whether you are going to approve these or
> not,
> > >so that if you don't, we can begin the appeals process to the IESGas
> > >specified in RFC 3066?
> > >
> > >Mark
> >
> >
> > --
> > Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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