Mr. Morfin: Your interest is noted. -Scott- > -----Original Message----- > From: Jefsey Morfin [mailto:jefsey@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:46 PM > To: Scott Hollenbeck; iesg@xxxxxxxx > Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Nomination for the appointment of a Languages > Subtags Reviewer > > Dear Scott, > from various mails of yours I understand that: > > - you will propose the IESG to consider the nomination of the RFC > 3066 Bis IETF Language Subtag Reviewer (under appeal) on March 2nd. > - you privately approached the RFC 3066 Langage Tag Reviewer for the > job. He disclosed it. > - you would also consider other candidates. > > I probably missed the call for nominations. I therefore wish to > nominate myself. > > I started dealing with networked language issues for the world > digital ecosystem in 1980, considering the international support of > Videotex diacritics. I was involved in Katakana technical support > from 1983. I am interested in computer assisted and networked > languages modes, the main issues the IETF should consider. I am > involved in multilingualisation (the equal support of every language > by technology) for years. I underline that the Language Subtag > Reviewer requirements by RFC 3066 Bis are not mainly oriented towards > languages and scripts (which must follow the ISO policy). I suppose > everyone knows that I am particularly informed of the RFC 3066 Bis > related issues. > > Disclosure of possible Conflicts of Interest. > > 1. I am an individual Member of the Unicode consortium. > 2. I maintain an experimental inclusive language coding elements > registry ("langroot") for cross referencing the various language > coding registries and counting around of 35.000 elements. > 3. I am one of the authors of the Language Equal Opportunity > Introductory Declaration (http://nicso.org/equilang.htm) and I want > the Internet to equally support every languages as it does for > English and to support every public and private language coding > system, as it does for ISO. > > Comments. > > I shared in the WG-LTRU where I proposed different solutions for the > administration of the ietf-languages@xxxxxxxx mailing list. Its RFC > 3066 Bis Draft says that the Language Subtag Reviewer is to moderate > it. Several persons have requested that the reviewer's role be > separated from the administrator's duties. > > I wish to respect the WG consensus. But if the consensus changed and > if the administration role was to be delegated, I consider that the > administration of a iana.org list belongs to the IANA. IMHO this > would protect the Language Subtag and Extension Registries from the > problems we faced with the Language Tag Registry. > > My policy would be inclusive, to support interoperability with all > the other language code registry. And to timely and actively support > all the innovations the WG-LTRU has foreseen to that end. I would > obviously pay the utmost attention to the Language Subtag Extension > Registry > http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-tag-extensions-registry and > to the all the interests it may raise. > > To illustrate my position, using cases recently discussed, I would > start in accepting the current ISO updates and every codes in the ISO > 3166 lists. I am interested in territory's internet communities, not > in territory adminstrative/political situation. This would start with > "EU" code for the European Union, and "Japn" for the group of scripts > usually found in Japanese documents. > > Jean-François C. Morfin > > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf