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Re: [IANA #1119825] ISO-IR links are obsolete in Character Setsregistry

Hello Sabrina,

I have sent the mail below to the ietf-charsets list about a week ago, 
but didn't get any replies.

I therefore suggest that we make sure we don't have any broken links, 
but we don't do any additional work that nobody may be interested in 
very much. So please replace all the links for the ISO-IR registrations 
with links to
https://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/itscj_english/iso-ir/ISO-IR.pdf

I hope you can do that easily with some global replacement operation.

Please get back to me if you need any more help or advice, or have any 
additional questions.

Regards,   Martin.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: [IANA #1119825] ISO-IR links are obsolete in Character Sets 
registry
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 08:34:29 +0000
From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
To: ietf-charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>

On 2018/10/22 13:57, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> Dear IETF charset experts and friends,

I didn't get any replies to this mail. If I have missed any, please tell 
me. Given the interest in these registrations seems fairly low, I'm 
thinking about just using the 
https://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/itscj_english/iso-ir/ISO-IR.pdf link 
throughout, which is the easiest way to fix the link problem and point 
people to the information they may need.

Regards,   Martin.

> We have received a mail from Sabrina Tanamal at IANA. I have made a
> proposal about how to deal with it, which includes running this by the
> ietf-charsets@iana.org mailing list for potential comments.
> 
> On 2018/10/19 06:52, Sabrina Tanamal via RT wrote:
>> Hi Ned, Martin,
>>
>> It's been pointed out to us that the links for the ISO-IR registrations at https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets are obsolete.
>>
>> We've contacted Keld Simonsen for an updated link, and he suggested the following:
>>
>> The reference
>> https://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/itscj_english/iso-ir/ISO-IR.pdf is better than the current.
> 
> This would indeed work.
> 
>> But maybe reference the registrations in that pdf directly in the references as this
>> gives the actual data, eg a link
>> http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/iso-ir/006.pdf
>> for US-ASCII
>>
>> I know this would take some work to do but I think it would be a service to the readers.
> 
> Yes. I could go through the list and find links for the easy cases
> quickly. We could then use the generic link for the rest in order to
> save time (let's call this Plan A).
> 
>> I also think links to the ISO 15897 registry with charmaps would be useful, as this has
>> mappings to ISO 10646/unicode. These mappings are not in the ISO-IR.pdf registry.
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> With respect to new software, both the ISO IR (now at ITSCJ) an the ISO
> 15897 registry are rather old. Some other sources, such as the data in
> ICU (International Components for Unicode, see links from
> http://site.icu-project.org/charts/charset) may be more relevant these
> days (let's call this Plan B, although we would need some more details).
> 
> If I don't see any feedback, I'll try to go with Plan A. Any feedback is
> welcome, but please take into account that somebody will have to
> volunteer the time to actually provide the detailed data. IANA will do
> the actual updates, but they are not experts, and therefore need very
> clear and detailed instructions.
> 
> Regards,   Martin.
> 
> 
>> ---
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Sabrina Tanamal
>> Senior IANA Services Specialist
>> .
>>
>