Re: A state of spin ... presented in ASCII

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todd glassey wrote:

>>It merely means IETF documents MUST BE internationally legible,
>>that is, pure ASCII.

> No, it means that they must be internationally available. And since many
> people DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH mandating them to be in English eliminates
> those party's participation.

It's a lot better than mandating *BOTH* English and French and
Greek and ...

> The idea that Knowledge Representation must occur in English means those
> that speak it poorly, and many others fail to reach the people who are
> part of the constituency and as such they fall short of the IETF's
> capabilities to deliver. They also may actually become victims of the
> language barrier

No English. OK. And, Japanese is the best language, of course. Let's
not use English but Japanese, internationally. OK?


						Masataka Ohta

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