Re: [Ltru] Re: [psg.com #1061] eliminate (or proscribe)Private Use Tags

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "r&d afrac" <rd at afrac.org>
> To: "Doug Ewell" <dewell at adelphia.net>; "LTRU Working Group" <ltru at ietf.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: [psg.com #1061] eliminate (or proscribe)Private Use Tags
>

> At 22:00 09/07/2005, Doug Ewell wrote:
> >In the interest of achieving consensus, I won't argue further about the
> >exact wording of this section.  I do insist that private-use tags and
> >subtags in "x-" not be removed from the grammar, or proscribed entirely.
> >It MUST be legal for consenting adults to generate and interpret
> >"x-this" and "en-x-that" in the privacy of their homes.
>
> I think confusion exists here. No one has ever considered that x-tags were
> to be associated to adult extentions of a language. To the countrary one of
> the applications of the x-tags in the "en" context you quote is precisely
> to be able to use tags of the form of "en-x-kids" that could be made
> mandatory for partental protection on "kid.us" namespace for example.
>
> If there is a confusion by a common US reader here, I recommand that some
> examples are provided for further user guidance.
> jfc

I trust that your response is as tongue-in-cheek as Doug's.

Randy




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