--On Tuesday, August 25, 2020 12:30 +0200 Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What's the process for reviving an IANA registry where the > contact mailing list for additions is dead? > > It's for the charset registry. It requires expert review > only, and I want to see a charset defined in an RFC added to > it because that part was apparently missed when the RFC was > written. (The point is to get an official name for the > charset, to increase interoperability among implementations.) I'm a little confused by your question. First, there are actually two registries that can be referred to as charset registries, both defined in RFC 2978: * The "Character Sets" list at https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml * The "Character Set Registrations" list for codes that are in use but not defined by RFCs, listed at https://www.iana.org/assignments/charset-reg/charset-reg.xhtml If the charset name code you are interested in registering is defined in an RFC, you are presumably want the first, but it would be helpful for you to confirm that. They both have the same expert reviewers and both reviewers are still active in the IETF. Neither page lists a contact mailing list (perhaps an omission that should be created). There is a contact address listed in RFC 2978, "ietf-charsets@xxxxxxxx". If that address is no longer working, I recommend you contact iana@xxxxxxxx and ask them what it going on as doing so will generate a ticket in the appropriate system. Second, allow me to ask a substantive question: at the time the registry was created, there were many charsets in use (and more being added). Today, there is little excuse for using anything but Unicode in one of its three standardized encoding forms. Unless there are circumstances I don't understand, adding and using an additional charset is likely to decrease interoperability, not increase it. So, while RFC 2978 is quite permissive and you only need to convince the experts, in the interest of interoperability, could you explain which RFC is involved and a bit about what is going on here? thanks, john
