RE: Comment on NETCONF charter

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

Will try to address in next rev (when I also have chairs)

Thanks,
Bert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ned.freed@mrochek.com [mailto:ned.freed@mrochek.com]
> Sent: woensdag 30 april 2003 20:43
> To: iesg@ietf.org
> Subject: Comment on NETCONF charter
> 
> 
> The charter currently includes this paragraph:
> 
> The Netconf protocol will use XML for data encoding purposes,
> because XML is a widely deployed standard which is supported
> by a large number of applications. XML also supports
> hierarchical data structures and multiple character sets.
> 
> The last clause bothers me. While it is true XML can be encoded
> in multiple charsets, doing so is rarely a good idea. While I 
> understand
> that this is meant to sell XML as a viable solution, I think it would
> be best to drop the last four words.
> 
> 				Ned
>