On 2008-03-16 02:09, Russ Housley wrote: > Jari: > > > Challenge for our IT folks: Internationalized Internet Drafts, > > including file names. Doable? > > Six or seven years ago we had a big discussion regarding the > language(s) to be used in the IETF. Harald was IETF Chair when this > discussion took place, and he declared the consensus to be that the > IETF would use on language: English. > > I do think it would be useful to look at representing author names > according to the individual's preference. And addresses. And there's also the question of useful examples in drafts discussing I18N issues. > However, I do not think > that non-English file names are consistent with the consensus that was reached. Agreed; I think there are too many practical problems in that, that really aren't ours to solve. draft-hoffman-utf8-rfcs talked about this. An experiment wouldn't be hard, and doesn't need a plenary... Brian _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf