RE: RFC2279 to Standard

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

I think I want to check this on the SNMPv3 mailing list,
which has STD docs that reference this 2279 document

Thanks,
Bert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrik Fältström [mailto:paf@cisco.com]
> Sent: donderdag 9 januari 2003 9:40
> To: IESG
> Subject: RFC2279 to Standard
> 
> 
> On onsdag, jan 8, 2003, at 23:07 Europe/Stockholm, Jacqueline Hargest 
> wrote:
> 
> > IP   o Patrik to take action on elevating RFC2279 to Standard.
> 
> A version 3 of the draft is ready which will explicitly limit 
> the IETF 
> UTF-8 version to 4 byte characters. This is because (a) we have never 
> before used UTF-8 for non-Unicode and (b) we can not find 
> implementations handling 5 and 6 byte implementations for the new ISO 
> 10646 which have many more codepoints.
> 
> The latter made me as AD make a decision that IF we say UTF-8 can be 
> also >4 octets then we probably have to restart at proposed, as the 
> original specification (even though not explicit) limits to that size.
> 
> If the IESG think this decision is wrong, let me know now.
> 
>     paf
>