Re: Proposal for insensitive registration

[Mark Davis <mark@macchiato.com>]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@dkuug.dk>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Markus Scherer" <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>; "charsets"
<ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 08:39
Subject: Re: Proposal for insensitive registration


> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 06:36:26PM -0700, Mark Davis wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > 2. The character set that is actually in use are A-Z, 0-9 plus:
> >
> > '_', example: ANSI_X3.110-1983
> > '.', example: ANSI_X3.110-1983
> > '-', example: ANSI_X3.110-1983
> > ':', example: ISO_5427:1981
> > '+', example: PC-MULTILINGUAL-850+EURO
> > '(', example: NF_Z_62-010_(1973)
> > ')', example: NF_Z_62-010_(1973)
> >
> > Notice that the last two are in violation of http://www.ietf.
> > org/rfc/rfc2978.txt, and should be removed!
>
> Or, the RFC2978 should be changed to accomodate these.
> the registrations came before the RFC2978, and the RFC tries to
> accomodate all the registrations. Furthermore it is against all
> recommendations on registries to remove items from them.

I have no strong feeling on this, although either the registration has
to be removed or the RFC has to be updated. It is a very odd
registration, so I doubt in practice that anyone will miss it. On the
other hand, I think it is completely reprehensible for country codes
or language codes to be removed, so I can see your point.

> >
> > A. Replace the text:
> >
> > The character set names may be up to 40 characters taken from the
> > printable characters of US-ASCII.  However, no distinction is made
> > between use of upper and lower case letters.
> >
> > with the new text:
> >
> > Constraints on Registered Names and Aliases
> >
> > The character set names may be up to 45 characters taken from the
printable
> > characters of US-ASCII.  As per RFC 2978 no distinction is made
between use
> > of upper and lower case letters. While more punctuation characters
are
> > permitted by RFC 2978, only the following should be used:
> > 0x43    '+'     PLUS SIGN
> > 0x45    '-'     HYPHEN-MINUS
> > 0x46    '.'     FULL STOP
> > 0x58    ':'     COLON
> > 0x95    '_'     LOW LINE
>
> and then also add
> 0x28   '('  LEFT PARENTHESIS
> 0x29   ')'  RIGHT PARENTHESIS

This text doesn't need to change, since it still says "should".
(Although the RFC ideally should change so that only these characters
are permitted. Then the addition or not of () depends on what is done
above.

>
> Kind regards
> Keld
>