On 29 Oct 2025, at 16:34, Paul Hoffman wrote:
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/>.
Right, but that's not a policy. To be clearer, what I was saying was
that "RFCs are in English" is not documented *as a policy*. It probably
should be written down *as a policy* somewhere. (The style guide can't
dictate policy.) The first sentence of that section is written as
policy, but 7322 is not a policy document.
So maybe it's worth saying in this document.
This WG can indeed choose to duplicate the existing policy...
Not a duplicate.
...or we can decide to simply refer to the Style Guide...
Not a good plan, IMO, as it would effectively be a downref.
...or we can make our own policy that uses different language than RFC
7322...
Or the same language.
...or we can just ignore it because language != character set. (I
prefer the latter.)
Again, my read of the rest of the room is that there is some desire to
document here, even if it is somewhat outside of the scope of this
document. It should appear somewhere other than the style guide.
pr
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