JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [mailto:jefsey(_at_)jefsey(_dot_)com] writes:
This is here where however we have a real practical problem. Only
standards and procedures written in English can be authoritative and
Drafts needs to be designed using the ASCII charsets. This is
acceptable when only English speaking engineers and reading users are
concerned. This represents less than 1/4 of the world population.
But the entire world population isn't all equally involved in designing and
running the Internet, or for that matter even using it. (Egalitarians may
claim they SHOULD be, but since they AREN'T for now, and changing languages is
IMHO extremely unlikely to change that, we can ignore that for now.) English
is the "lingua franca" of the modern world, so to speak. Therefore, to
paraphrase Churchill, English is the worst possible language for Internet
protocol documentation, except for all the others.
-Dave
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