Status of zh-* proposals
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Sun Mar 6 11:47:12 CET 2005
Jefsey,
DON'T write to me privately.
At 05:31 +0100 2005-03-06, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
>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 am not interested in your extremist views. IANA asks nothing of
James Seng. I suggest to Peter and Mark that they bring him in on it
because he is an expert in IDN whose opinion we trust.
>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.
I have no intention of fulfilling my role in any way other than it is
specified in the RFC.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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