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--> -----Original Message-----
--> From: Gray, Eric
--> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:04 AM
--> To: 'Nelson, David'
--> Cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
--> Subject: RE: Examples of translated RFCs
-->
--> David,
-->
--> Never-the-less, it can happen. Normative references -
--> at least by some definitions of the term - can be to types
--> of documents than RFCs.
-->
s/documents than/documents other than/
--> However, it is usually the case that papers and other
--> documents written in French, Russian, German, etc. are made
--> available in - or can be made available in - English for
--> use in references from documents written in English.
-->
--> This is - indeed - the reason why the IETF allows for
--> translations of RFCs: so that they can, in turn, be used as
--> references in documents written in other languages.
-->
--> --
--> Eric
-->
--> --> -----Original Message-----
--> --> From: ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
[mailto:ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org]
--> --> On Behalf Of Nelson, David
--> --> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 10:55 AM
--> --> To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
--> --> Subject: RE: Examples of translated RFCs
--> -->
--> --> JFC (Jefsey) Morfin writes...
--> -->
--> --> > So , IMHO, the IETF urgency is today the other way around:
--> --> > incorporating into RFC standards, practices or tables
--> --> authoritatively
--> --> > written or thought in another language than English,
--> or in English
--> --> > using normative non-ASCII art drafts or using term in
--> a meaning
--> --> > foreign to the IETF.
--> -->
--> --> If all RFCs are written in English, basically so that there
--> --> is at most
--> --> one additional language in which one must be fluent to
--> --> understand and
--> --> implement the protocols described therein, wouldn't it
--> defeat the
--> --> purpose to have normative references written in other languages?
--> -->
--> -->
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