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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