todd glassey wrote:
It merely means IETF documents MUST BE internationally legible,
that is, pure ASCII.
No, it means that they must be internationally available. And since many
people DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH mandating them to be in English eliminates
those party's participation.
It's a lot better than mandating *BOTH* English and French and
Greek and ...
The idea that Knowledge Representation must occur in English means those
that speak it poorly, and many others fail to reach the people who are
part of the constituency and as such they fall short of the IETF's
capabilities to deliver. They also may actually become victims of the
language barrier
No English. OK. And, Japanese is the best language, of course. Let's
not use English but Japanese, internationally. OK?
Masataka Ohta
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