RE: Volunteer needed to serve as IANA charset reviewer

[McDonald Ira <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>]

Hi,

+1 for Ned as Charset Reviewer!

-1 for the idea of relaxing the IESG policy that UTF-8
specifically MUST be supported by any new IETF protocol
to some statement that UTF-anything MUST be supported.

Besides MIME incompatibility, because of their BOM
dependence (and thus broken string parse/concatenate),
UTF-16-[endian] and UTF-32-[endian] are unsuitable for 
wire protocols (the proper sphere of the IETF).

Cheers,
- Ira

PS - When I was writing the IANA Charset MIB (RFC 3808), I 
wrote a parser (*) for the plaintext IANA Charset Registry
to generate updates to the MIB.  It warns of RFC 2978 
problems (e.g., a missing "cs" alias).  I'd be happy to
enhance it to do a better check for RFC 2978 compliance.

* ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/pmp/tools/ianachar.c


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
 

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