> Moreover, English centric IETF meetings are hard to be actively > attended by people whose primary language is not English. Compared > to other International organizations, IETF requires too much in > English capability. Worse, in IETF, inactive participation is > nothing. It wouuld be possible to have all the mailing lists redistributed using some babelfish-like mechanism for translation, though obviously that wouldn't cover all languages and wouldn't do any well. Maybe better than nothing. Reality is there has to be a standard language unless you have the vast resources of the UN. While I can fully understand why the rest of the world wouldn't be happy with English as the choice for that language, there isn't really any fundamental reason why it shouldn't be English. Austin
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