From domo@tsa.co.uk Mon May 6 19:51:10 1991 Received: from kestrel.ukc.ac.uk by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA20657; Mon, 6 May 91 19:51:10 +0200 Received: from bugs.specialix.co.uk by kestrel.Ukc.AC.UK with SMTP id ab28865; 6 May 91 17:03 BST Received: from tsa.co.uk by specialix.co.uk id aa11434; Mon, 6 May 91 15:55:13 GMT From: Dominic Dunlop Date: Mon, 6 May 91 14:11:53 BST Message-Id: <26571.9105061311@tsa.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Keld J|rn Simonsen "(wg15rin 104) X/open & UniForum on locales" (Apr 25, 19:09) X-Fax: +44 491 651751 X-Phone: +44 491 652590 X-Address: 9 The Forty, Cholsey, OXON OX10 9LH, U.K. X-Organization: The Standard Answer Ltd. X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.1.2 7/11/90) To: wg15rin@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (wg15rin 104) X/open & UniForum on locales X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Just time for one comment on Bill Allcorn's list of considerations: > 1. Registration Issues: > > A. Authority > > - Who should be the registration authority? > > (ISO would seem to be the right choice but it is not at all > clear how we go about getting them to agree to do it.) Given that there is a work item which will result in a standard requiring a registration authority, ISO will gladly delegate the task to any ``...competent body which has the requisite infrastructure...''. Examples are The National Association of Photgraphic Manufacturers, Inc. for film speeds, the National Institute for Standards and Technology for the Graphical Kernel System, and the European Computer Manufacturers Association for character set escape sequences. Some national standards bodies also act as registration authorities: BSI on currency codes and DIN on country codes, for example. And ISO occasionally does the work itself, as with trade data elements (whatever they are). (Information taken from ISO Catalogue, 1990.) This means that, if a standard requiring the registration of locales and/or locale elements were to be brought forward, X/Open (just to pull a name out of the hat) might well be accepted as a registration authority, were it to volunteer. -- Dominic Dunlop