Re: [Encoding] false statement [I18N-ACTION-328][I18N-ISSUE-374]

On 8/31/2014 11:00 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> On 8/27/2014 10:37 AM, Richard Ishida wrote:
>>> "Historically encodings and their specifications (if any) were kept track
>>> of by the IANA Character Sets registry. For the purposes of specifications
>>> using this specification, that registry no longer relevant."
>> This last version is workable in the sense that it removes objectionable
>> statements. It is, however,less relevant to the users of the specification.
> Why? It explains that for their purposes IANA Character Sets is done for.

But gives less detail/motivation than the proposed alternative.
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>> I personally would find some statement along the line given in the quote
>> starting with "User agents..." preferable because it addresses the issue
>> from the point of view of users of the specification (as well as writers of
>> derived specifications), and presents the loss of relevance of the IANA
>> registry as  consequence of a particular (and important) design decisions
>> and not as an axiom.
> It does not just apply to user agents. It's also the case for
> developers, specification editors, users, etc.
Then fix that part - it's the part that I didn't repeat that had the 
stuff I thought was more useful in terms of motivating the "irrelevancy".

A./
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