ietf-nntp My notes from the NNTP WG meeting at the 37th IETF

[Harald.T.Alvestrand at uninett.no]

This AD certainly won't say that not addressing i18n in the new
protocol won't hold it up.

We currently have <just send 8-bit> deployed in certain parts of the
world. The new spec needs to do one of:

- Frown on the practice and declare ASCII forever (and be ignored)
- Mandate a single charset for all conformant implementations
- Add tag&bag or negotiated identification of all strings that
  may contain i18n-ed strings

I won't dictate your decision - *all* of these cause harm to the
installed base, finding the least painful solution is the WG's job.

            Harald