>Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:34:19 PST
>From: The IESG <iesg-secretary at ns.ietf.org>
>Subject: Protocol Action: IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages to BCP
>Sender: scoya at cnri.reston.va.us>To: IETF-Announce:;;@sigurd.innosoft.com at cp10.es.xerox.coM>Cc: RFC Editor <rfc-editor at isi.edu>
>Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab at isi.edu>
>Cc: ietf-charsets at innosoft.com>>>>The IESG has approved publication of the following Internet-Drafts:
>> o IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages
> <draft-alvestrand-charset-policy-02.txt> for publication as a BCP.
>> o IANA Charset Registration Procedure
> <draft-freed-charset-reg-04.txt> for publication as a BCP.
>>> o UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
> <draft-yergeau-utf8-rev-01.txt> for publication as a Proposed Standard.
>>The IESG contact person is Keith Moore.
>>>Technical Summary
>> This set of documents specifies a consistent, useful policy for the
> IETF with regard to the use of character sets and language
> information in IETF standards.
>> In particular, it specifies that protocols MUST be able to use
> the UTF-8 charset in human-readable text strings (support for
> other charsets is optional), and MUST be able to provide language
> tags for such text, in order to be successfully submitted to IETF
> standards processes without approval of a variance procedure.
>>Working Group Summary
>> The policy has been reviewed at a special BOF at the Munich IETF
> and in numerous working groups; there seems to be rough consensus
> on the policy as stated.
>> No objections were raised during IETF Last Call.
>>Protocol Quality
>> These documents have been reviewed for the IESG by Keith Moore.
>>>NOTE TO RFC EDITOR:
>draft-yergeau-utf8-rev-01.txt contains an instance of MUST (all caps).
>The IESG requests this word be lower case.
>>>