On 2/24/2021 9:20 AM, Barry Leiba wrote:
I wonder, then, if it doesn't make more sense to send reactions as
defined protocol elements that can be localized, and a "Yes!" reaction
could show as a thumb-up emoji in locales where that's appropriate,
and as something else elsewhere.
Barry,
Thanks for the clarification. And, in fact, I now recall seeing this
concern, but not by whom or where.
In any case, it's certainly an interesting conceptual issue.
It is also a completely different task than the current one has undertaken.
A notation for shared affect semantics could be a fun effort. Not for
the IETF, but for some group. And 'fun' doesn't mean 'productive'.
It's the sort of effort that is appealing but extremely difficult, for
standardization.
Rather, the current effort seeks only to document and, eventually,
standardize, *existing practice*, albeit from a different service
environment. This is always easier and more pragmatic.
That's not to deny that appeal of what you describe, merely that what
you have described is a very different -- and far more difficult -- task.
There are a number of times, over the years, where similar choice has
been made. DNS country codes come to mind. The thinking then proved
quite useful and is, I think, the same here: Some other group has a
serious effort to standardize a difficult construct. So let's just use
their work.
That's what the current specification does.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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