RE: Update of charset windows-1252, draft 3

[McDonald Ira <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>]

Hi Martin,

As the author of the original IANA Charset MIB [RFC3808], 
I'd like to point out section 3 'Generation of IANA Charset
MIB' which says the original MIB was machine-generated from
the then current IANA Charset Registry (the text form).

My contributed utility 'ianachar.c' auto-generated a 'cs...' 
alias when 'cs...' was missing (due to faulty registrations) 
in the IANA Charset Registry.

That's why you find a complete set of 'cs...' aliases in the
IANA Charset MIB but not in IANA Charset Registry - yet - we
should clean it up, right?

Cheers,
- Ira

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@it.aoyama.ac.jp]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:16 AM
To: Erik van der Poel; Kent Karlsson
Cc: ietf-charsets@iana.org; mikeksar@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: Update of charset windows-1252, draft 3


At 10:04 06/11/06, Erik van der Poel wrote:
>When Ned and Martin became the new charset reviewers, they said that
>they would first process the backlog of registration requests, and
>then clean up the registry. So I propose that we remove the paragraph
>about ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.0-Latin-1 and
>ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.1-Latin-1 from the windows-1252 update. We can
>deal with those 2 charsets later, when we clean up the registry.

That would be fine with me.

>I don't think we should add cpwindows1252 or any other alias to the
>windows-1252 registration either.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2978.txt says:

   All charsets MUST be assigned a name that provides a display string
   for the associated "MIBenum" value defined below.  These "MIBenum"
   values are defined by and used in the Printer MIB [RFC-1759].  Such
   names MUST begin with the letters "cs" and MUST contain no more than
   40 characters (including the "cs" prefix) chosen from from the
   printable subset of US-ASCII.  Only one name beginning with "cs" may
   be assigned to a single charset.  If no name of this form is
   explicitly defined IANA will assign an alias consisting of "cs"
   prepended to the primary charset name.

This assignement has already happened. I'm not sure why this appears
at http://www.iana.org/assignments/ianacharset-mib but not at
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets, but given that for
many other registrations, an alias that starts with "cs" is listed
at http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets, it may be an
oversight. Ned, what's your take on this? Anybody else with MIB
experience?

Regards,    Martin.




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