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Re: More problems with "mnemonic" (sic)

1992-03-03 13:35:12
  Note that the bottom line of Keld's response to my note of this
morning is very simple.  

1. His RFC which is intended to be standards track ("mnemonic")
explicitly references another RFC ("char") which is NOT standards
track as if it were a standard and uses it ("char") to specify
precisely how "mnemonic" must be implemented.  That dependence on a
non-standards track document is alone sufficient to make IESG/IAB
standardisation of "mnemonic" alone inappropriate.

2.  Note also that the Vietnamese mnemonic encoding which has been
used world-wide on USENET (i.e. in soc.culture.vietnamese) and the
joint Internet, Bitnet, UUCPnet email network (i.e. viet-net lists)
for YEARS by the Vietnamese language community is being ignored.  
 
  In effect, although he could rephrase the mnemonic framework to be
general enough to support different profiles for different
circumstances (a Viet-Net profile and an EUnet profile and possibly
other profiles, for example), he REFUSES to make those changes and
would PREVENT other usages which PREDATE his from using the general
mechanism.  This is not evidence that he is willing to work in a
cooperative fashion on "mnemonic" and is in fact evidence that this
work is NOT coming from the IETF working group but rather is coming
only from a single member of that working group as an INDIVIDUAL
effort.

Ran
atkinson(_at_)itd(_dot_)nrl(_dot_)navy(_dot_)mil


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