Re: [ssac-gnso-irdwg] IRD-WG/Related Meetings in Cartagena and Next Meeting

["James M. Galvin" <jgalvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RFC 5646 defines a syntax language tag, including an IANA registry for  
values.  It does not speak to the issue of how one includes a language  
tag in the Whois, or any service or application that uses it.  My  
question is unrelated to this information.
Recovering context from my earlier message:



>         • Have the WG considered adding a language tag to the contact data?
>> This, in fact, is exactly one of the problems.  Whois protocol has  
no language tag
>> capabilities. This is why it needs to be replaced.

Adding a language tag to the Whois output is not a sufficient  
technical solution.  The Whois protocol output is freeform so the  
first question is how a client finds this information so it can use  
it.  Then there's the question of what it applies to (data, labels,  
etc.).  And I can think of almost 12 more technical questions that  
come up from the apparently straightforward suggestion to just add a  
language tag.
This really is a protocol issue and one of the basic reasons that  
Whois needs to be replaced.
Jim




On Dec 5, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Steve Sheng wrote:

> Hi Rafik, I was informed that there is actually an RFC for it.
>
> ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc5646.txt
>
> Warm regards,
> Steve
>
>
> On 12/5/10 12:19 PM, "Rafik Dammak" <rafik.dammak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
>
>
> [Steve Sheng] I think the proposal is to have a language tag as a  
> data element, not at the protocol level, so I would envision  
> something a data entry like: language/script: Arabic.
> language or script, for example some languages are using Arab  
> script, I guess that we may need script tag too?
> Rafik