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

["Edmon Chung" <edmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,
I think the comment regarding language tag pertains whether the registrant
should pick a language tag for their contact info.
The language tag as data supplied by the registrant.
Much like for IDN registrations where a registrant would pick a language
tag.  The comment was whether end users who wish to submit internationalized
contact info should select a language tag to go with it.  That is a policy
aspect I think.
Edmon



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ssac-gnso-irdwg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ssac-gnso-
> irdwg@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James M. Galvin
> Sent: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 3:04 AM
> To: Steve Sheng
> Cc: James M. Galvin; Rafik Dammak; Julie Hedlund; Ird
> Subject: Re: [ssac-gnso-irdwg] IRD-WG/Related Meetings in Cartagena and
Next
> Meeting
> 
> 
> 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
> >