Re: Last Call: language root file size

2005-08-28 Thread Doug Ewell
639-6. The argument against the RFC 3066bis effort on the basis of the asserted existence of "20,000 languages" is attributable to M. Morfin alone. He is not being truthful in saying that he does not oppose the draft; he has spent the entire lifetime of the LTRU WG, and before, shouting his oppo

Re: [Ltru] Re: Last Call: language root file size (long)

2005-08-28 Thread Doug Ewell
tandard. > I have documented enough (too much :-)) during these last days that I > support (one can read my mails of end of December 2004) the Draft > with the provision it is not exclusive and serves the Internet > community rather than exclude its R&D and innovation capacity.

Re: [Ltru] Re: Last Call: language root file size (long)

2005-08-28 Thread Doug Ewell
have been: "variant" subtags and "grandfathered" tags There is no such thing in the draft as a grandfathered subtag. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: STD (was: Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP)

2005-08-28 Thread Doug Ewell
together for a specific purpose (as for a chartered tour)." Exercise for the reader: Explain why this is a bad thing for an IETF Working Group. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP

2005-08-29 Thread Doug Ewell
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: > From the input of Doug Ewell its _initial_ version withISO 639-6 will > include 40.000 lines. I never said that. I would not make any statement about ISO 639-6 when the data is not available. I said that the deltas for the initial version with ISO 639-*3* wou

Re: Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP

2005-08-29 Thread Doug Ewell
tandards it uses must themselves be IPR-protected. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [Ltru] Re: STD (was: Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP)

2005-08-29 Thread Doug Ewell
ls have a technical basis, rather than being ad-hominem. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: STD

2005-08-30 Thread Doug Ewell
TF, as we have heard, is by individuals, not by representatives or delegates or spokesmen. Let's focus on the drafts, and have a productive discussion. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last call comments on LTRU registry and initialization documents

2005-09-07 Thread Doug Ewell
e co-chairs and group thought best. There would be no need for a separate initialization document otherwise. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last call comments on LTRU registry and initialization documents

2005-09-09 Thread Doug Ewell
rectible errors or omissions they may introduce, and live with the uncorrectable errors? Just wondering. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last call comments on LTRU registry and initialization documents

2005-09-09 Thread Doug Ewell
quot; to "uncorrectable" but left "correctible" uncorrected. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last call comments on LTRU registry and initialization documents

2005-09-09 Thread Doug Ewell
TRU is ever revised to incorporate subtags based on ISO 639-3 codes, the additional registry information would occupy 740 pages, and suggested that this amount of material might be inappropriate to publish as an RFC or even an I-D. A 118-page draft consisting almost entirely of a code li

Re: New ISO 639 item: Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian [; Macedo-Romanian]

2005-09-20 Thread Doug Ewell
name: aroumain; macédo-roumain > Indigenous name: armâneashti In accordance with section 2, item 2 of draft-ietf-ltru-initial-04, this needs to be added to the initial registry. Håvard has already been asked about the duplication of "Macedo-Romanian." -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, Californ

Re: UN - Don't panic

2005-10-01 Thread Doug Ewell
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > If you allow a bunch of engineers to create their ideal working > conditions they would allow unlimited scope for technical excellence > with no hard deadlines and no need to ever interact with the actual > customers. Well said. -- Doug Ewe

Re: Petition to the IESG for a PR-action against Jefsey Morfin posted

2005-10-02 Thread Doug Ewell
lerated in any face-to-face working environment. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: On PR-actions, signatures and debate

2005-10-06 Thread Doug Ewell
uss. It has already been explained here that this has NOTHING to do with tolerance for different opinions. It has everything to do with the obnoxious, abusive, disrespectful manner in which those opinions have been expressed. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia

Re: On PR-actions, signatures and debate

2005-10-07 Thread Doug Ewell
ind. (I do disagree with Jefsey's opinions, but I also disagree with a lot of other people who treat me with more respect and less contempt, and consequently I have no problem with them.) I really don't want to drag this on. You and I have a difference of opinion about how this P

Re: Fwd: Can the USA welcome IETF (was: Last Call under RFC 3683 concerning Dean Anderson (reissued))

2005-10-17 Thread Doug Ewell
> shut up or get back on the subject at hand, and the IETF can get back > to it's business of documenting and improving the 'net. For some reason this reminds me of "O: The Oprah Magazine." -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___

Re: Monday 0800 Streaming efforts for IETF64 redux

2005-11-14 Thread Doug Ewell
Joel Jaeggli wrote: The detailed schedule is now available. It is still subject to change. Streaming Begins at 0800 PST (UTC/GMT -7) Monday November 7th. Nit: PST is UTC+8, not UTC+7. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell

Re: Faux Pas -- web publication in proprietary formats at ietf.org

2005-11-14 Thread Doug Ewell
m. I remember unisys and the gif debacle, among others. Thus proving Anthony's point. The GIF debacle had nothing to do with Microsoft. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Iet

Re: Monday 0800 Streaming efforts for IETF64 redux

2005-11-14 Thread Doug Ewell
I burbled: The detailed schedule is now available. It is still subject to change. Streaming Begins at 0800 PST (UTC/GMT -7) Monday November 7th. Nit: PST is UTC+8, not UTC+7. Of course this should have been: Nit: PST is UTC-8, not UTC-7. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http

Re: Faux Pas -- web publication in proprietary formats at ietf.org

2005-11-14 Thread Doug Ewell
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: If everyone were Voltaire, we would not need smileys to express irony. That is awesome. That is going straight into my fortune-cookie file. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell

Re: RFCs should be distributed in XML

2005-11-21 Thread Doug Ewell
draft-ietf-ltru-initial-06. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: RFCs should be distributed in XML

2005-11-22 Thread Doug Ewell
pages, constituting the initial contents of the RFC 3066bis registry, will be removed from the document before publication. But thanks for the heads-up. I'll be careful to watch for any unanticipated changes. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.n

Re: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-24 Thread Doug Ewell
ble software will be able to do the same in the future. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: I-D file formats and internationalization

2005-12-03 Thread Doug Ewell
Perhaps it's just me, but I find it bizarre that the question of limiting RFC text to ASCII vs. UTF-8 is being conflated with the question of limiting RFC illustrations to "ASCII art" vs. other graphic formats. I don't think the two have anything important in common. --

Re: Examples of translated RFCs

2005-12-06 Thread Doug Ewell
ition, I think you do your countrymen a disservice by claiming that they are incapable of reading kanji printed in a Chinese-style font. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Examples of translated RFCs

2005-12-06 Thread Doug Ewell
tin and Greek are separate. Latin and Greek are not simply glyph variants of one another. You should admit that ISO 10646 useless for internationalization. I do not. ISO 10646 is a cornerstone of modern software internationalization. I imagine this is off-topic for IETF.

Re: off-topic? [was Re: Examples of translated RFCs]

2005-12-08 Thread Doug Ewell
what RFC 3066bis is really about is invited to read it themselves: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ltru-registry-14.txt I will not waste further keystrokes on this. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

Re: Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-25 Thread Doug Ewell
points the first couple of times, and blew off the restatements. -- Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ ___

Re: Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-30 Thread Doug Ewell
I believe the work may be of value to any entity (corporate or otherwise) concerned with the identification of linguistic content. -- Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.c

Re: 64bit time_t

2008-06-21 Thread Doug Ewell
and it won't be off-topic any more. Just be sure to check for prior art first, because you're likely not the first person to try to solve this problem. I would argue that if the data type has a 35 million year span, then setting the baseline at 2000-01-01 seems arbitrary. --

Re: Gen-art review of draft-ietf-forces-model-14.txt

2008-09-05 Thread Doug Ewell
Now this is a reasonable use for this sort > of language but I think that at least some of the 'may's should also > be MAY. We may want to add this as a data point in the continuing debate over whether non-uppercased auxiliary verbs carry the same normative RFC 2119 meaning as u

Re: Call for review of proposed IESG Statement on Examples

2008-09-22 Thread Doug Ewell
dy appeared in well-known and heavily cited RFCs (John's use case that launched the present debate). -- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/i

ietf@ietf.org

2008-11-01 Thread Doug Ewell
d "nepotism" inappropriately to your "opponents" in this effort will only cause people to take your effort less seriously, and may cause you personal embarrassment as well (though this is probably mitigated by your use of only a first name and pseudonym in your postings). -- D

ietf@ietf.org

2008-11-02 Thread Doug Ewell
ier to criticize than learn, however, so I doubt you will do this. -- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ _

Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

2008-11-08 Thread Doug Ewell
what was going on. It's conceivable that someone might have used this high-profile mailing list as part of a spam, at some point, but to block the entire domain is complete overkill. I'm no expert on e-mail security, and I detest spam, but there is such a thing as a cure that is wors

New boilerplate (was: Re: Gen-ART LC Review of draft-igoe-secsh-aes-gcm-00)

2008-11-26 Thread Doug Ewell
egal Provisions" document is 6 pages of legalese, and I'm not enough of a lawyer to sort out which parts I'm supposed to insert where, and what existing text I'm supposed to remove. It would be nice if someone could provide guidance on (b), at least until (a) is resolved. -

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread Doug Ewell
best left to the future. There is a block of 1024 code points *tentatively roadmapped* to "Sutton SignWriting." That is very, very different from saying that "Unicode has reserved N code points for our script." -- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on aproposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-11 Thread Doug Ewell
hored other RFCs, need to do to allow the WG chairs to move *their* draft forward into IETF Last Call? Our WG has stalled due to the uncertainty surrounding the legal requirements and verbiage. None of us are attorneys, AFAIK, but all of us would like to get our work done. -- Doug

Re: RFC 5378 "contributions"

2009-01-15 Thread Doug Ewell
edit any more I-Ds after draft-ietf-ltru-4645bis if I have to worry about my personal legal liability if someone in the Working Group who contributed text has not granted me sufficient IP rights. -- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http:

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-21 Thread Doug Ewell
ze this may be the intent, but this is legal wording, where the words are binding and not the intent. -- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alv

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your comments on ...

2009-01-24 Thread Doug Ewell
ensus. Not all "contributions" are positive or direct; an author might add wording specifically to ward off a rogue interpretation that someone in the WG "contributed." If you think this is improbable, read some of the appeals that the IESG has had to address in the

Re: Ah, I see the cause of the situation now... (tls-authz situation)

2009-02-10 Thread Doug Ewell
Marshall Eubanks wrote: Suppose that a major religious figure or a major movie star encouraged their supporters to email the IETF list. I thought Stallman was considered a major religious figure. -- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Language Tag Registry Update (ltru)

2006-08-22 Thread Doug Ewell
ssues and write drafts before the first milestone. -- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California, USA http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ Editor, draft-ietf-ltru-initial ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: nomcom:Soliciting feedback from entire working groups?

2006-12-18 Thread Doug Ewell
fiction. I don't object to this effective public candidacy, but honesty in labeling might be called for. -- Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailma

Re: Last Call: draft-mcwalter-langtag-mib (Language Tag MIB) to Proposed Standard

2007-02-10 Thread Doug Ewell
m. Since tags of 1 character are never well-formed, I suggest that the definition: SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..60)) be amended to exclude the 1-character case. I assume that a zero-length tag, while also not defined in RFC 4646, was included in the I-D to allow the special case of

Re: TLS requirements (Last Call: draft-ietf-atompub-protocol to Proposed Standard)

2007-05-22 Thread Doug Ewell
ller than X.Y and MUST support all versions between and including that version and X.Y"?) I remember MS-DOS software that would run under DOS version 3.3 or 5.0, but not 4.0. -- Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ http

Re: Do you want to have more meetings outside US ?

2007-07-29 Thread Doug Ewell
ate in the survey. -- Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ___ Ietf mailing

Re: RFC 1345 mnemonics table not consistent with Unicode 3.2.0

2007-08-25 Thread Doug Ewell
er one or both of these approaches as an alternative to using RFC 1345 mnemonics for data entry. Or, you can go ahead and use the mnemonics as they are, but resign yourself to the fact that they will probably never be updated. Speaking only for myself, as always. -- Doug Ewell · Fullerton, Ca

Re: RFC 1345 mnemonics table not consistent with Unicode 3.2.0

2007-08-31 Thread Doug Ewell
stroke" and j3 for "Greek iota below." This is what Ben is looking for. -- Doug Ewell · Fullerton, California, USA · RFC 4645 · UTN #14 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand

Re: [idn] Re: 7 bits forever!

2002-04-02 Thread Doug Ewell
n now beyond this obvious point? -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California

Re: [idn] Re: CDNC Final Comments on Last call of IDN drafts

2002-06-06 Thread Doug Ewell
them regularly and promptly!) so they are available in an easily accessible, central location. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California

Re: draft-gellens-negotiating-human-language-01

2013-02-22 Thread Doug Ewell
ted in BCP 47. RFC 4647, also part of BCP 47, provides guidelines for matching language tags, and may benefit the SDP negotiation process described in the draft. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell ­

RE: draft-gellens-negotiating-human-language-01

2013-02-23 Thread Doug Ewell
off the reference to the Registry and just say the tag must conform to 5646 (or BCP 47). That will imply the use of the Registry. Thanks, -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell -Original Message- From: "Randall Gellens" Sent: ‎2/‎23/‎2013 1:18 To:

RE: draft-gellens-negotiating-human-language-01

2013-02-23 Thread Doug Ewell
That means essentially the same thing. Check to make sure your other reviewers feel that wording is OK. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell -Original Message- From: "Randall Gellens" Sent: ‎2/‎23/‎2013 20:34 To: "Doug Ewell" ; "

Re: Gather Profiles/Resumes [was Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-15 Thread Doug Ewell
had already contacted the HR department of another contributor's employer, asking them to professionally discipline the employee, because he had supported an RFC 3683 PR-action against the first contributor. Full disclosure can be a dangerous thing. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell ­

Re: SHOULD and RECOMMENDED

2013-06-25 Thread Doug Ewell
'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', and 'OPTIONAL' in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119." If a document wants to impart different meaning to one or more of the words, wouldn't a

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-11 Thread Doug Ewell
FCs) use only characters in a small and well-known fraction of the Unicode code space. You might expect an RFC to contain non-ASCII characters like á and — that are part of a well-known and widely used subset like WGL4. You would not expect it to contain Egyptian hieroglyphs or Vai syllabl

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-11 Thread Doug Ewell
separate topics. You could have plain text encoded in UTF-8. You could have HTML or PDF-A that uses nothing but ASCII characters. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-12 Thread Doug Ewell
ry, I don't understand this at all. A space character (which looks like an ordinary U+0020 space to me, in both the plain-text message I received and in the Web archive) got erroneously converted to a question mark in Tim's plain-text mail. How does this demonstrate anything about PDF?

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-12 Thread Doug Ewell
ine to me; only in Ohta-san's quoting of Tim's message do I see the question mark. Regardless of where the question mark came from, this still has nothing to do with PDF. It has only to do with tools that misinterpret character sets or transform plain text. -- Doug Ewell | Tho

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-13 Thread Doug Ewell
"bill manning" wrote: ISO not withstanding, its still confusing if only because other cultures use yyddmm. Which cultures are those? -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://i

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-13 Thread Doug Ewell
der than can fit on the printed page. It is not an inherent flaw of HTML. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s ­ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-13 Thread Doug Ewell
Masataka Ohta wrote: The problem with email is people use html way too much. TXT -> HTML -> TXT does not work reliable. Too many one way transformations. That's enough to deny the following statement of Doug Ewell; You could have HTML or PDF-A that uses nothing but ASCII char

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-13 Thread Doug Ewell
important. PDF is a binary format and there are lots of other bytes in this file with the high bit set, if we want to bring that up too. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://i

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-13 Thread Doug Ewell
mbol. Of course my old version of Distiller doesn't support PDF/A, as I'm sure newer versions do, but you should get the idea: allowing RFCs to contain non-ASCII does not imply changing the format from plain text, and vice versa. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http:/

RE: Towards consensus on document format

2010-03-15 Thread Doug Ewell
can contain any Unicode character that an HTML document can contain. Note that I am not arguing in favor of plain text as the IETF standard. I just want to keep this part of the discussion real. There is no requirement anywhere that plain-text files may contain only ASCII characters. -- Doug Ewe

Re: Towards consensus on document format

2010-03-16 Thread Doug Ewell
eature profile to be successful? For an Engineering Task Force, this group sure does surprise me sometimes with its logical reasoning. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages

Re: Towards consensus on document format

2010-03-16 Thread Doug Ewell
ASCII" and "plain text." -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s ­ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Towards consensus on document format

2010-03-16 Thread Doug Ewell
documents more valuable than 80% of the RFC series, will be converted and will exist in both old and new formats LONG before there is any risk of irreversible obsolescence. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://i

Re: Towards consensus on document format

2010-03-16 Thread Doug Ewell
that you are more clever than me? -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s ­ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: A state of spin ... presented in ASCII

2010-03-21 Thread Doug Ewell
could be usable. If you need really international scope, pure ASCII is the only choice. For more information on this enlightening and forward-thinking approach to internationalization, the interested reader may be directed to RFC 1815. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-21 Thread Doug Ewell
use U+005C is unequivocally the backslash and U+00A5 is unequivocally the yen sign. There are no context-dependent "duals" in Unicode. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ htt

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-21 Thread Doug Ewell
ould be if they had stuck with ISO 2022 instead? -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s ­ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: A state of spin ... presented in ASCII

2010-03-21 Thread Doug Ewell
this difficult to understand. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s ­ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Using xml2rfc (was: Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII)

2010-03-23 Thread Doug Ewell
ays emerges from this joint character-set/RFC format discussion, every time it comes up, is that someone feels there should be one and only one process and tool set for writing I-Ds, and someone else feels the need to wave the "Don't Tread on Me" flag in protest. -- Doug Ewell |

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-23 Thread Doug Ewell
saying that I should not be able to see or use characters used only in languages that I do not understand. I claim that a universal character encoding is beneficial to all, and that it is my problem if I don't have adequate fonts or knowledge to read the text. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colo

Re: Nomcom Enhancements: Improving the IETF leadership selectionprocess

2010-07-19 Thread Doug Ewell
or more WG Internet-Drafts that went through to RFC, but have had neither corporate sponsorship nor independent wealth necessary to attend meetings. This situation is likely to continue, as people attending meetings at reduced day-pass fees are excluded from Nomcom eligibility. -- Doug Ewell

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-07 Thread Doug Ewell
the DPE has been run. At least on the surface, this does make it appear that the decision to exclude day-pass attendees from NomCom, on the basis that such attendees would not have the requisite experience, is driven by financial considerations after all. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado

Re: Meeting Venue Preference Survey

2010-08-30 Thread Doug Ewell
a WG on the belief that mailing-list-only participation is important to the IETF. I am neither funded by my company to go on round-the-world junkets, nor wealthy enough to afford them out-of-pocket. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-lan

Re: [79all] IETF Badge

2010-11-11 Thread Doug Ewell
ear's question seems pertinent here. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ is dot gd slash 2kf0s ­ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

RE: A new version of draft-yevstifeyev-abnf-separated-lists

2010-12-10 Thread Doug Ewell
anks to (in alphabetical order): Tony Hansen, Thomson Martin >and Barry Leiba for their weighty input to this document. This doesn't look like alphabetical order to me. Is the parenthetical comment really necessary when only three names are involved? -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado,

Re: Clarification for Copyright to referred material in IETF draft

2010-12-14 Thread Doug Ewell
can change them! This is the eternal debate over Wikipedia: it's good because good people can make it better, it's bad because bad people can make it worse. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ is dot gd s

Wikipedia (was: Re: Clarification for Copyright to referred material in IETF draft)

2010-12-14 Thread Doug Ewell
SM wrote: > Quoting Doug Ewell [1]: > >"I thought it would be good to let the list know that these > misconceptions exist and may be widespread, because of the wide > use of Wikipedia" I like Wikipedia and usually find its articles to be accurate. The a

Re: Automatically updated Table of Contents with Nroff

2010-12-29 Thread Doug Ewell
difficulty getting the desired results. Then again, I write code for a living, so writing XML by hand isn't my idea of pain. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ is dot gd slash

RE: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-06 Thread Doug Ewell
cesses that have no need for top-notch security, and rely daily on FTP. I often see comments on this list about whether the "outside world" views the IETF as irrelevant. Declaring a commonly used, core process or protocol as Historic because something better exists might be a perfect

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-08 Thread Doug Ewell
as Mykyta's) is how aggressive some people might be in declaring a specification like FTP to be superseded or obsolete. "Inappropriate for high-security uses" does not by any means imply "inappropriate for all uses." -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://w

RE: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-10 Thread Doug Ewell
e could possibly make a stronger case for classifying the > RDP spec as Historic! If "Historic" has taken on the connotation of "this spec is deprecated, don't use it any more," then to the extent it is useful and deployed, this would send the wrong message. Just like F

Re: Last Call on draft-ietf-pim-registry-03.txt

2011-01-12 Thread Doug Ewell
Donald Eastlake wrote: Almost all registries I'm familiar with explicitly list unassigned ranges. The IANA Language Subtag Registry doesn't: http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 464

Re: author's address (was: Re: Fwd: [OPS-DIR] OPS-DIR Review ofdraft-yevstifeyev-tn3270-uri-12)

2011-01-13 Thread Doug Ewell
e same name probably carries some weight for authors named "John Smith" or "Bob Miller." There are few enough people named "Doug Ewell" in the world that the risk of ambiguity of authorship seems much more remote than the risk to personal security if too much pers

Re: author's address (was: Re: Fwd: [OPS-DIR] OPS-DIR Reviewofdraft-yevstifeyev-tn3270-uri-12)

2011-01-13 Thread Doug Ewell
I wrote: I [...] edited both RFC 4645 and 5646 as "Consultant." s/5646/5645/ -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ is dot gd slash 2kf0s ­ ___ Ietf mailing list Iet

Re: Request for Review - draft-yevstifeyev-genarea-historic-01

2011-01-28 Thread Doug Ewell
hrase "or any other reason" seems unnecessarily open-ended, and may invite abuse. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ is dot gd slash 2kf0s ­ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@

Re: Request for Review - draft-yevstifeyev-genarea-historic-01

2011-01-30 Thread Doug Ewell
Anyway, what would you like to > propose here? I don’t have exact replacement wording. “Any other reason” could permit me to propose deprecation or “historicization” of a protocol because I don’t like the guy who created it, or because my company is promoting a rival protocol. -- Doug Ewell |

draft-hoffman-rfc3536bis-00 (Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF)

2011-03-08 Thread Doug Ewell
increased by almost 15 times the number of languages that can be tagged using this mechanism. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ is dot gd slash 2kf0s ­ ___ Ietf mailing list Iet

Re: Proposal to create IETF IPR Advisory Board

2009-02-18 Thread Doug Ewell
. -- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org

Re: Abstract on Page 1?

2009-03-05 Thread Doug Ewell
e existing documents to the end pages with the licensing info. It would surprise me if changing all of the existing documents was considered part of the scope of this suggestion. -- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/htm

Re: Early implementers motivations [was Re: Running Code]

2009-03-05 Thread Doug Ewell
ementations in the drafts would have made a slow review and approval process even slower. -- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ie

Re: Running Code

2009-03-07 Thread Doug Ewell
approved -- and let others ignore it if they choose? -- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ

Re: Consensus Call for draft-housley-tls-authz

2009-03-13 Thread Doug Ewell
awful in any country. This is completely different from the hundred or so "campaign" e-mails sent to this list which said that all software patents are evil and all software standards must be 100% patent-free. -- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http

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