Re: [Encoding] false statement

On 6/29/2014 9:27 PM, Larry Masinter wrote:
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> "Historically encodings and their specifications (if any) were kept 
> track of by the IANA Character Sets registry. This specification 
> renders that registry obsolete."
>

What is this in reference to?

A./

> This specification does not, by itself, cause any changes to the IANA 
> Character Sets registry at all, much less render it obsolete.
>
> I don’t think the document should be published without documenting the 
> interoperability issues between web applications that follow this spec 
> and non-web applications that don’t.
>
> Larry
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