Re: [whatwg] New URL Standard from Anne van Kesteren on 2012-09-24 (public-whatwg-arch...@w3.org from September 2012)

2012-10-24 Thread John Cowan
co...@ccil.org of Unopened Consciousness have been known to theJohn Cowan Great World eons longer than Extaboulism. Why is that? the woman inquired. Because I just made that word up, the Master said wisely. --Kehlog Albran, The Profit http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

Re: [whatwg] New URL Standard from Anne van Kesteren on 2012-09-24 (public-whatwg-arch...@w3.org from September 2012)

2012-10-23 Thread John Cowan
Graham Klyne scripsit: On 22/10/2012 23:35, Ian Hickson wrote: Consensus isn't a value I hold highly, ! Just call him Frank Sinatra. -- John Cowan co...@ccil.orghttp://ccil.org/~cowan I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I

Re: Last Call: draft-wilde-text-fragment (URI Fragment Identifiers for the text/plain Media Type

2007-02-28 Thread John Cowan
of RFCs) in a machine-understandable fashion. I would add one sentence to explain that length is indeed used as a weak but cheaply calculated hash function, thus justifying its grouping with MD5. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ccil.org/~cowan C'est la

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

2007-02-14 Thread John Cowan
to allow the special case of no tag. AFAIK, ASN.1 does not allow sizes like (0, 2..60). I wouldn't even bother with this change. -- John Cowan[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://ccil.org/~cowan Rather than making ill-conceived suggestions for improvement based on uninformed guesses about established

John Cowan supports 3683 PR-action against Jefsey Morfin

2006-01-23 Thread John Cowan
not that great. John Cowan --Golda Meir[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-07 Thread John Cowan
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin scripsit: Dear John, thank you to acknowledge that the proposed draft _impose_ something ! It therefore do not report on an existing practice. thank you to acknowledge that the proposed draft even _limits_ the current practice ! thank you to explain that the decision of

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-07 Thread John Cowan
are not making the algorithm normative, but just saying The most commonly used algorithm is. -- [W]hen I wrote it I was more than a little John Cowan febrile with foodpoisoning from an antique carrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] that I foolishly ate out of an illjudged faith www.ccil.org

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-07 Thread John Cowan
, but the existing registered tags talk about scripts too. -- John Cowan www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Tis the Linux rebellion / Let coders take their place, The Linux-nationale / Shall Microsoft outpace, We can write better programs / Our CPUs won't stall, So raise

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread John Cowan
that it is not the truth. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be yourself. Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF where no such knowledge exists. Neither be cynical about RELAX NG; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment in the world of markup, James Clark

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, stability,  and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread John Cowan
John Cowan that their God will rouse them[EMAIL PROTECTED] A little before the nuts work loose.http://www.ccil.org/~cowan They do not teach http://www.reutershealth.com that His Pity allows them --Rudyard

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread John Cowan
, construe! The entities mentioned in your quotation are the IAB and the IESG. -- Principles. You can't say A is John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] made of B or vice versa. All mass http://www.reutershealth.com is interaction. --Richard Feynman http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread John Cowan
is why the fallback rule isn't and can't be a protocol-level transaction or (a fortiori) an interop issue. It's simply a useful default in many circumstances. -- All Norstrilians knew what laughter was:John Cowan it was pleasurable corrigible malfunction.http://www.reutershealth.com

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread John Cowan
-insensitively) identical, which is already made, we don't believe that any of these other things can be normatively enunciated. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies!John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread John Cowan
a heuristic (or examination of the IANA registry, which is not machine-parseable) that tells the meaning of the second subtag the existing registered tag sr-Latn. In the draft, its meaning is unambiguously specified a priori. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread John Cowan
already supports tags that don't fit. -- John Cowan www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arise, you prisoners of Windows / Arise, you slaves of Redmond, Wash, The day and hour soon are coming / When all the IT folks say Gosh! It isn't from a clever lawsuit

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread John Cowan
as language variants under the procedures given in the draft. - our work was fully supported and the idea of a rigid language description tag not accepted by any correspondents so far. RFC 3066 language tags are in wide use. -- Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old childJohn Cowan could

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread John Cowan
fashion. Everything in 2.4.2 is a non-normative elaboration of this. -- John Cowan www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Tis the Linux rebellion / Let coders take their place, The Linux-nationale / Shall Microsoft outpace, We can write better programs / Our CPUs won't

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread John Cowan
as well. -- John Cowanhttp://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any legal document draws most of its meaning from context. A telegram that says 'SELL HUNDRED THOUSAND SHARES IBM SHORT' (only 190 bits in 5-bit Baudot code plus appropriate headers) is as good a legal document

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread John Cowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit: Now, it may be the case that all _registered_ tags have avoided the use of non-country code two letter codes in the third and later position. But this is 100% irrelevant. If you say so. The point is that conformant code implementing RFC 3066 is broken if it

Re: IDN and language

2005-01-04 Thread John Cowan
in dictionaries, whereas eigenevent.com is ruled out because it mixes English and German? Forbidding the mixing of scripts is another matter, although in fact some languages are written using more than one (Unicode) script. -- And it was said that ever after, if anyJohn Cowan man looked

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-04 Thread John Cowan
a clue how to handle this new draft competently in regards to matching. The draft describes only the RFC 1766 (3066) algorithm, without excluding other algorithms to be defined later. -- Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old childJohn Cowan could understand this report. Run out

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-04 Thread John Cowan
of political correctness: John Cowan After Nurhachi had united all the otherhttp://www.reutershealth.com Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643) [EMAIL PROTECTED] issued an order that the name Jurchen

Re: IDN and language

2005-01-04 Thread John Cowan
. -- XQuery Blueberry DOMJohn Cowan Entity parser dot-com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abstract schemata http://www.reutershealth.com XPointer errata http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Infoset Unicode BOM

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

2004-12-15 Thread John Cowan
-the-dialect-spoken-on-the-bowery-between-1933-and-1945-by-alcoholic-drug-users-who-live-in-flophouses. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan It's the old, old story. Droid meets droid. Droid becomes chameleon. Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid

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

2004-12-14 Thread John Cowan
(then known as Ethiopia), East Germany, West Germany, the Netherlands Antilles, the Pacific Islands Trust Territories (now split up), the USSR, Yemen, Democratic Yemen, and Yugoslavia. -- Do NOT stray from the path! John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Gandalf

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

2004-12-14 Thread John Cowan
of an MA with unfettered discretion to make changes. -- On the Semantic Web, it's too hard to prove John Cowan[EMAIL PROTECTED] you're not a dog. --Bill de hOra http://www.ccil.org/~cowan ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2004-12-14 Thread John Cowan
limit in the length of language tags? -- Here lies the Christian,John Cowan judge, and poet Peter, http://www.reutershealth.com Who broke the laws of God http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and man and metre

Re: Ietf-languages Digest, Vol 24, Issue 5

2004-12-13 Thread John Cowan
in length) is false, as has been shown, and the grandfathered production is only used to match certain existing registered RFC 3066 tags as they appear in the registry. -- Do I contradict myself?John Cowan Very well then, I contradict myself.[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am

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

2004-12-13 Thread John Cowan
Bruce Lilly scripsit: Moreover, the point is that countries do change, and that use of country codes (as provided for in RFC 3066 and in the proposed draft) carries with it the inherent instability which is characteristic of politics. A quest for stability of countries seems Quixotic and

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

2004-12-13 Thread John Cowan
. -- [W]hen I wrote it I was more than a little John Cowan febrile with foodpoisoning from an antique carrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] that I foolishly ate out of an illjudged faith www.ccil.org/~cowan in the benignancy of vegetables. --And Rosta

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

2004-12-13 Thread John Cowan
Peter Constable scripsit: My suggestions, then, in response to Bruce Lilley's comments are: I heartily support all of this, despite the extra burden it imposes on our esteemed editors, and hope that none of it is in any way controversial. -- John Cowan www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org

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

2004-12-13 Thread John Cowan
. This is a situation we do not intend to repeat. Agreed, but let's make sure not to blame the innocent. It is not uncommon for users to confuse JA and JP. *blush* I've done it myself, and in implementation, not merely in discussion. Fortunately, the evidence is now buried. -- John Cowan

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

2004-12-13 Thread John Cowan
-letter codes. Not much of an international agreement, really. -- Samuel Johnson on playing the violin: John Cowan Difficult do you call it, Sir? [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wish it were impossible.http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

Re: [idn] Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)

2003-10-29 Thread John Cowan
if you take the position that there are no native/direct/raw encodings of Unicode. -- In politics, obedience and support John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] are the same thing. --Hannah Arendthttp://www.ccil.org/~cowan

Re: [idn] Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)

2003-10-29 Thread John Cowan
van een docent zijn divers, John Cowan die van het gehoor ook. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Edsger Dijkstra http://www.ccil.org/~cowan