Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: Question

From: "Addison Phillips" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:13:28 -0800

Putting on my W3C chair chat....

The W3C Internationalization Core Working Group has the responsibility (in its charter) for developing guidelines for W3C specifications regarding the adoption of language tag technology (as a result of this working group's activities)--and not just for XML based technologies, of course, but other W3C technologies that are affected, such as Semantic Web, Web services, and so forth. This should not be confused with telling people which tags to use in their content, of course. It is a guideline on how to reference tags and implement such things as matching.?

The I18N GEO working group, chaired by my esteemed colleague Richard Ishida, develops guidelines for content authors on the selection of language tags, but these are not normative documents.

It should be noted that the I18N Core WG is also chartered to work on the separate issue of locale identification (mostly for Web services) in tandem with recommendations on language tags, since at least some members of the working group feel that these are likely to be related.

So I guess the upshot would be: the W3C working group is tracking this work, but isn't responsible for any aspect of it, since it is interested in the outcome and any potential impact that arises from changes to language tags to W3C technologies. Guidelines may be developed for content authors at a later date, although these are likely to be based on or strongly influenced by the content of the RFC(s).

Best Regards,

Addison

Addison P. Phillips
Globalization Architect, Quest Software
Chair, W3C Internationalization Core Working Group

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] On
> Behalf Of McDonald, Ira
> Sent: lundi 28 mars 2005 12:44
> To: 'Jon Hanna'; [email-masked]
> Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: Question
> 
> Hi Jon,
> 
> Agreed - but the IETF doesn't have a working group with the
> expertise that the W3C Internationalization and GEO activities
> do.  I was merely pointing out that the tough questions of using
> language tags in W3C specs based on XML belongs to the W3C.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Ira
> 
> Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Jon Hanna
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 11:51 AM
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> Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: Question
> 
> 
> > Doesn't the question of criteria for choosing tags for content
> > properly belong in the W3C Internationalization activity?
> 
> Not all Internet content is web content.
> 
> Regards,
> Jon Hanna
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