Re: IANA Charset MIB (for Printer MIB v2)

[David Hopwood <david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk>]

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"McDonald, Ira" wrote:
<ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/pmp/drafts/draft-mcdonald-iana-charset-mib-00.txt>

> Abstract
> 
>    This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
>    for use with network management protocols in the Internet community.
>    In particular, it defines a single textual convention 'CodedCharSet'
>    that may be used to specify charset labels in MIB objects, for
>    example 'prtLocalizationCharacterSet' in Printer MIB v2 (RFC nnnn).
>    'CodedCharSet' was originally defined in Printer MIB v1 (RFC 1759).

A coded-character-set (CCS) is a different thing from a charset (see
for example <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr17/> or
<http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/>). Please change the name to 'Charset',
if that would not cause too much disruption.

> 1.  Introduction
> 
>    This IANA Charset MIB module defines the single textual convention
>    'CodedCharSet'.  Once adopted, all future versions of the IANA
>    Charset MIB will be machine-generated, whenever the IANA Charset
>    Registry [CHARSET] is updated by IANA staff according to the
>    procedures defined in [RFC2978], using the utility [IANACHAR]
>    described in section 3 of this document.

Add: "IANA staff may change or replace this utility as necessary to
correct errors or take into account changes in the registry format."

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