From: Brad Templeton (brad@templetons.com)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 12:46:58 CDT
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:43:27AM +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> In <20021007113937.A10089@main.templetons.com> Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> writes:
>
> >In fact, to implement the above, the only changes to the standard are:
> > a) Making sure the control messages have the ability to include the
> > new, 16 bit character group names.
>
> I think that is already covered:
>
> Control: newgroup news.groups; prettyname="New Newsgroup Proposals"
If it wouldn't blow up existing tools, otherwise a kludge extra header
for future parameters on pre-existing ctl messsage
>
> > b) Guideline for News to Mail
>
> I am not clear what you want there.
See earlier message
>
> >The rest can be done and tested and standardized later.
>
> I agree that this is a matter for future experimentation possibly followed
> by standardization. But I would not like it to be used as an excuse for
> doing nothing about I18N group names now.
While I have not followed it in detail, I have not seen much signs of
resolution on those issues, so I think that is exactly what we need.