The point of the request, btw, was that the admin list not be used for substantial discussion. This is totally on-topic for [email protected].
Cheers, On 15/03/2011, at 10:34 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: > Responding off-list at the request of Mark Nottingham. > > On 03/15/2011 01:10 PM, John C Klensin wrote: >> >> --On Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:03 -0400 Sam Ruby >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 03/15/2011 11:34 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: >>>> FYI: >>>> >>>> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0302 >>>> .html> >>>> >>>> ...I'm sure that this will come up during Last Call again. >>> >>> This issue can be REOPENED if there is new information >>> presented. An example of such new information is listed in >>> the email cited above. >> >> And, if you (collectively) decided to do so, you might consider >> the note I sent a few minutes ago as "new information", since, >> as far as I can tell from the poll discussion or summary, the WG >> apparently did not consider use of either RFC 20 or RFC 5198 as >> options. > > If you have new information you would like to have the chairs consider, > please send (or have somebody send on your behalf) a message to the Chairs > coping the HTML working group. The chairs are unlikely to seriously consider > such a request unless that request is accompanied by a Change Proposal: > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html#change-proposal > >> john > > - Sam Ruby > >> p.s. The objective of having an authoritative definition of >> ASCII that is available for free is a non-starter. There is >> only one authoritative definition and that is the one published >> by the body that is now called ANSI. That is not only >> copyright-controlled and sold but the 1968 version is out of >> print. Please remember that "ASCII" is an abbreviation for >> "American Standard Code for Information Interchange" not a >> descriptor of a list of code points. If you want free, stable, >> and available, you are going to have to go with an authoritative >> and stable copy of the code point list and whatever else you are >> interested in. > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
