On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 09:36:24AM -0400, Bron Gondwana wrote: > The IETF choses to do its work in English, though that choice is likewise not more "justified" than other choices, it's just what the majority likes. Fun digression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_language A statistic such as "L2 speakers (Ethnologue.com 2013)" showing english at the top of second languages with 979 million is probably the type of justification to pick english - not sure where to find the likely more relevant numbers for likely/candidate participants of our community, but i would think everybody assumes that it would show english even more differentiated at the top. I guess if we would choose to go with that wikis page for the most common second language, all the hard work on internationalization in the IETF would finally pay of for the community itself. Whereas nowadays we arguably would not loose much for the community itself if we would go back to 7-bit ascii. Of course, getting Hindi up that high in that list is a nice effect of India itself being so multi-cultural and differentiated in first languages that there was a great opportunity for Hindi to grow as the second language. One of the interesting aspects to learn when visiting the country. Well played India ;-) Cheers toerless -- last-call mailing list last-call@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call
