RE: Fwd: Registration of new charset [Amiga-1251] - revision 2

["McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>]

Hi Martin,

Yes - the MIB should be machine-generated each time a new
charset is registered, so that other MIBs pick up that charset.

The MIB can be easily machine-generated with a simple C tool,
as explained in <draft-mcdonald-iana-charset-mib-02.txt>.

I've posted the source and DOS/Windows binary of the C tool
to a durable location on the IEEE/ISTO Printer Working Group's
Web/FTP server (HTTP URLs in the draft are wrong, because our
Web master never mirrored the FTP URLs - will fix with the
RFC Editor).

Cheers,
- Ira

PS - If regeneration of the MIB lags behind the registry,
the only side effect is that other MIBs cannot do I18N of
character strings with the newly registered charsets.

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@w3.org]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 1:36 PM
To: McDonald, Ira; iana@iana.org
Cc: ietf-charsets@iana.org
Subject: RE: Fwd: Registration of new charset [Amiga-1251] - revision 2


At 09:18 04/01/12 -0800, McDonald, Ira wrote:

>Also, when the IESG-approved IANA Charset MIB is finally published
>as an RFC, the machine-generated IANA Charset MIB will contain
>the assigned MIBenum.  The approved draft of IANA Charset MIB
>is at:
>
>ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mcdonald-iana-charset-mib-02.txt
>
>(note that the MIB itself in this file is out-of-date and must be
>regenerated before the RFC is published).

Does that mean that the MIB has to be regenerated every time
a new 'charset' is registered?

Regards,    Martin.