On Oct 29, 2025, at 09:13, Pete Resnick <[email protected]> wrote: > (Chair hat on) > > Solely from what has been said so far, I'm hearing that people do want a > mention of English as the document language in this document. I think it > would be "surprising" if the RPC decided to start publishing non-English > documents themselves without RSWG OK, which sounds to me like "RFCs are in > English" is already a policy, not just a style decision. The interesting > thing is that it's not documented anywhere I can find.
From the RFC Style Guide, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7322/>: 3.1. Language The RFC publication language is English. Spelling may be either American or British, as long as an individual document is internally consistent. Where both American and British English spelling are used within a document or cluster of documents, the text will be modified to be consistent with American English spelling. RFC 7322 is actively being worked on: <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rpc-rfc7322bis/>. > So maybe it's worth saying in this document. This WG can indeed choose to duplicate the existing policy, or we can decide to simply refer to the Style Guide, or we can make our own policy that uses different language than RFC 7322, or we can just ignore it because language != character set. (I prefer the latter.) --Paul Hoffman
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