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Subject: replace-after in Danish annex
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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 92 8:39:22 PDT
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In response to Keld's inquiry for opinions on including a
replace-after mechanism in the Danish non-normative annex of Dot2:

I DO NOT have an official U.S. position on this, as the question
arose after our last meeting, but here are a couple of personal
observations:

	1.  It is not clear how a replace-after mechanism would
		impact or interact with specifications that the 
		UniForum and X/Open i18n working groups are developing 
		for network-wide locale definition, X Window support,
		etc.  

	2.  I would suggest that fairly detailed specs of the desired
		functionality be generated and submitted to the
		UniForum and X/Open i18n working groups, as well 
		as to RIN, Dot2, etal for review and comment.  I know
		that we have discussed the concept, but I don't
		believe that we have actually seen a full spec.

	3.  As a general practice, should we be including elements
		of functionality in international standards that
		have not been "field tested" ??

	4.  I am a little worried about including non-standard
		functionality in one (or, several) country's
		non-normative annexes, particularly if it has not
		been fully specified, received broad review, etc.
		Doing so would seem to create a significant
		interoperability issue, particularly in large
		networks of heterogeneous systems in which all
		machines need to precisely support (or deal with
		appropriately) the same functionality.  
-- 
Ralph Barker		Voice:  +1 408-986-8840  FAX: +1 408-986-1645
Director of Technical Services, UniForum  (formerly /usr/group)
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email:   ralph@techcomm.uniforum.org