Re: Registration of new character set

• From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
• Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:20:35 +0900
• To: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>, Martin von Loewis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
• Cc: ietf-charsets@iana.org
• Message-id: <4.2.0.58.J.20010621101917.0580bc00@sh.w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>

At 18:53 01/06/20 +0430, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Martin von Loewis wrote:
>
> > Therefore, I request that a name for the encoding in RFC 2060 is
> > registered. I propose the following entry in the registry:
> >
> > Name: RFC_2060-mailbox
> > MIBenum: <assigned by IANA>
> > Source: RFC-2060
> > Alias: csRFC2060mailbox
>
>What about an alias like IMAP-mailbox or something like that somehow gives
>the developer a sense of what RFC2060 really is, without the need for
>remembering numbers?

Good idea. Better yet, throw out all the numbers (except of course
for the 'Source' entry). This is a new registration, so we don't
need any superfluous aliases.

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Wednesday, 20 June 2001 21:44:18 UTC