jefsey@xxxxxxxxxx (JFC (Jefsey) Morfin) wrote on 30.08.05 in <6.2.3.4.2.20050830115145.03a3bd80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Dear Brian and all, > This mail of Harald Alvestrand positively concludes a long, difficult > and boring effort of mine started at the WG-IDNA. I apologise to all > for the inconveniences it created all over these years. My Franglish > and my lack of talents left me with a tested method: the style you > suffered, to pass ideas to who is interested or concerned; home work > to demonstrate and implement them. It avoids conflicts and obtains > results, at the cost of some ad-hominems instead of major conflicts > (like on the spam issue). The Draft has considerably improved since I > started partly opposing it in December. > > Harald Alvestrand expressed several times that the IETF is neither > interested nor competent in multilingualism, an area which is > necessarily, by its complexity, the size of its financial figures and > the involved industrial, political and cultural interests, the engine > of the development of the future Internet (RFC 3869 unfortunately did > not considered). So, he managed or sponsored himself that policy with > real talent. I was first confronted to that IETF situation through > the WG-IDNA: it shown me the rightness of his evaluation. Frankly, your analysis is about as wrong as possible. This is NOT about language problems, or about centralization, or whatever. > My sadness is the very very small number of non-English mother tongue > participants: the alternative SDO Harald found is no really better in > that area. When addressing multilingualism, this should be very > concerning for us all. Well, I'm certainly a non-English mother tongue participant. In fact, I seem to recall so is Harald Alvestrand. And I side with Harald in this. Your messages are often so full of jargon they are nearly impossible to understand. Furthermore, they often assert a large number of "facts" that certainly aren't true in the universe I see around me. And lastly, their connection with the threads you post them in is often hard to understand, too. MfG Kai _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf