The IESG <iesg dash secretary at ietf dot org> wrote:
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to
consider the following document:
- 'Language Tag MIB '
<draft-mcwalter-langtag-mib-01.txt> as a Proposed Standard
This document defines a profile of RFC 4646 language tags for use in a
particular application, by restricting the tags to lowercase and no more
than 60 characters in length.
There is a recommended casing convention described in RFC 4646, section
2.1 (e.g. "hmn-Latn-LA"), but tags are not intended to be
case-sensitive, and applications such as this one may choose a different
convention if it suits them.
Section 4.3 of RFC 4646 discusses tag length limitations and suggests a
minimum length limit of 42 characters. The proposed limit of 60
characters in the I-D is greater than that minimum, and much greater
than the likely maximum length of any non-private-use tag, and should
pose no problem.
Since tags of 1 character are never well-formed, I suggest that the
definition:
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..60))
be amended to exclude the 1-character case. I assume that a zero-length
tag, while also not defined in RFC 4646, was included in the I-D to
allow the special case of "no tag."
--
Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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