On 2008-03-16 02:09, Russ Housley wrote:
> Jari:
> 
>  > Challenge for our IT folks: Internationalized Internet Drafts,
>  > including file names. Doable?
> 
> Six or seven years ago we had a big discussion regarding the 
> language(s) to be used in the IETF.  Harald was IETF Chair when this 
> discussion took place, and he declared the consensus to be that the 
> IETF would use on language: English.
> 
> I do think it would be useful to look at representing author names 
> according to the individual's preference. 

And addresses. And there's also the question of useful examples
in drafts discussing I18N issues.

> However, I do not think 
> that non-English file names are consistent with the consensus that was 
> reached.

Agreed; I think there are too many practical problems in that,
that really aren't ours to solve.

draft-hoffman-utf8-rfcs talked about this. An experiment wouldn't be
hard, and doesn't need a plenary...

   Brian
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