14:52:38 RRSAgent has joined #i18n 14:52:38 logging to http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-irc 14:52:43 Zakim has joined #i18n 14:52:52 trackbot, prepare teleconference 14:52:55 RRSAgent, make logs world 14:52:58 Zakim, this will be 4186 14:52:58 Meeting: Internationalization Working Group Teleconference 14:52:58 Date: 13 July 2017 14:52:59 ok, trackbot 14:53:17 Agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2017Jul/0011.html 14:53:21 agenda+ Agenda 14:53:25 agenda+ Action Items 14:53:32 agenda+ Info Share 14:53:35 agenda+ Radar 14:53:51 agenda+ Requirements for language/direction metadata document (and related discussion) 14:53:56 agenda+ Unicode/XML 14:54:08 agenda+ Floating Times Q+A 14:54:17 agenda+ Brainstorming ways to reach a wider audience for reviews (ACTION-635) 14:54:33 agenda+ Microdata 14:54:41 agenda+ HTML5 and Email input 14:54:56 Chair: Addison Phillips 14:55:02 ScribeNick: addison 14:55:06 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-minutes.html addison 15:01:01 Steve_Atkin has joined #i18n 15:01:45 Klensin has joined #i18n 15:02:32 present+ 15:02:35 agenda ? 15:02:49 present+ 15:04:50 zakim, who is here? 15:04:50 Present: Bert, addison 15:04:52 On IRC I see Klensin, Steve_Atkin, Zakim, RRSAgent, addison, r12a, chaals, trackbot, Bert, fantasai, koji, bigbluehat, csarven 15:04:54 present+ David 15:05:12 present+ JcK 15:05:27 present+ Steven 15:06:00 chaals-o has joined #i18n 15:06:24 agenda? 15:06:41 zakim, next item 15:06:41 agendum 1. "Agenda" taken up [from addison] 15:07:01 zakim, next item 15:07:01 agendum 1 was just opened, addison 15:07:11 https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open 15:07:28 David has joined #I18n 15:07:51 present+ 15:08:12 action-631? 15:08:12 action-631 -- Addison Phillips to Invite chaals to teleconference in two weeks to discuss microdata -- due 2017-07-13 -- OPEN 15:08:12 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/631 15:08:22 close action-631 15:08:22 Closed action-631. 15:08:38 action-632? 15:08:38 action-632 -- Addison Phillips to Update unicode-xml to include change in status banner -- due 2017-07-13 -- OPEN 15:08:38 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/632 15:08:41 close action-632 15:08:41 Closed action-632. 15:08:53 action-633? 15:08:53 action-633 -- Richard Ishida to Create github repo for new document (call it string-metadata) -- due 2017-07-13 -- OPEN 15:08:53 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/633 15:08:58 close action-633 15:08:58 Closed action-633. 15:09:16 action-634? 15:09:16 action-634 -- Richard Ishida to Check john's comment on floating times article -- due 2017-07-13 -- OPEN 15:09:16 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/634 15:09:31 close action-634 15:09:31 Closed action-634. 15:09:54 jck: talked to calendaring folks 15:10:03 ... haven't heard back from resulting references 15:10:16 richard: needs a little more work, not sure what to do by end of it 15:10:33 http://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-floating-times.en 15:10:54 action: addison: update floating times q+a to address confusing section at end 15:10:54 Created ACTION-636 - Update floating times q+a to address confusing section at end [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-07-20]. 15:11:30 action-635? 15:11:30 action-635 -- Addison Phillips to Remind all to think about ways and venues for reaching out to larger audience for reviews -- due 2017-07-13 -- OPEN 15:11:30 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/635 15:11:35 close action-635 15:11:35 Closed action-635. 15:11:46 agenda? 15:12:29 zakim, take up agendum 9 15:12:29 agendum 9. "Microdata" taken up [from addison] 15:13:19 chaals: microdata is like microformats to put data into a document 15:13:28 ... microdata doesn't do i18n 15:13:41 ... all attributes around i18n get thrown away 15:13:49 richard: reason why? 15:13:57 chaals: they felt it would be easier 15:14:06 ... quick hack version of 15:14:18 ... trying to spec it out and how does it fit into space where 15:14:25 ... multiple approaches exist 15:14:36 ... have proposed that instead of resolving "lacking thing" 15:14:43 ... then use RFDa 15:14:53 s/RFDa/RDFa/ 15:15:17 chaals: better at handling i18n 15:15:40 ... need to get schema.org et al to rebuild parsers to support 15:16:04 ... instead of making microdata a competitor to rdfa 15:16:19 ... deprecate microdata 15:17:38 addison: what would you like us to do? 15:17:53 chaals: okay for microdata to move forward? even though weak in i18n 15:18:28 richard: where does it say that now? 15:18:38 chaals: point out rough parallels but don't spell out 15:19:21 addison: are there partizans for microdata somewhere? 15:19:41 chaals: schema founders proposed it first, but found it was bad for things 15:19:47 ... lots of microdata out there 15:19:53 ... webcommons micro crawl 15:20:05 ... billions of triples, 2/3 of which are in microdata 15:20:16 ... which is why a rec is being produced 15:20:24 s/deprecate microdata/suggest that for uses needing e.g. internationalisation then it is easy to convert your markup to RDFa which can handle proper i18n/ 15:20:38 richard: schema.org balked at using microdata... 15:20:43 chaals: no, still accept 15:20:57 ... so we started out suggesting use microdata 15:21:03 ... as we looked at it more carefully 15:21:10 ... it's pretty simplistic and badly designed 15:21:21 ... trying to map data into an RDF graph 15:21:31 ... microdata can be used for that, but no fun 15:21:44 ... RDFa or JSON-LD better fit 15:21:49 ... RDFa close match 15:21:56 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-minutes.html addison 15:21:57 s/better fit/more fit for purpose/ 15:22:42 https://w3c.github.io/microdata/#i18n-considerations 15:24:54 addison: this is buried, are you planning for a big "sticker" on the whole? 15:27:36 addison: saying we don't need to review? 15:27:53 chaals: if you review it, you'll find it's highly inadequate 15:28:23 ... would like to move forward, because useful for simple cases 15:28:46 ... and when you "grow up" then here are better alternatives 15:28:59 richard: would prefer if people used world-ready from the start 15:29:51 addison: so do brief review, propose text for i18n section and status? 15:30:10 chaals: happy, but want to do CR transition by end of month 15:31:09 jan: I think it's wonderful, having hard time finding people to work on microdata 15:31:33 richard: do on list so others can see 15:31:39 chaals: use issues 15:32:09 addison: if tagged with i18n tags then lists will mirror 15:32:57 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-minutes.html addison 15:33:05 agenda? 15:33:15 zakim, take up agendum 10 15:33:15 agendum 10. "HTML5 and Email input" taken up [from addison] 15:34:26 chaals: split into two issues 15:34:32 ... left hand side and right hand side 15:34:48 ... left side, we expect addresses to normalize to punycode, i.e. ascii 15:35:08 ... we expect browsers to provide ability to input actual characters 15:35:18 ... actually easier to see in real Unicode string 15:35:31 ... say mixed russian and english 15:35:35 ... also easier to type 15:35:45 ... we didn't make any change to left hand side 15:35:52 s/left side/right side/ 15:36:03 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-minutes.html addison 15:36:46 jck: on right hand side 15:36:59 ... while principal you describe is correct, example terrible 15:37:09 -> https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/845 the left-hand-side issue 15:37:16 ... if string with cyrillic is displayed in punycode 15:37:28 ... it's a warning 15:37:36 ... in general case exactly right 15:37:45 ... left side is more problematic 15:37:54 ... standard says "don't convert" 15:38:04 ... use native character form in UTF-8 15:38:21 ... don't allow non-ascii means don't use those addresses 15:39:06 chaals: no browser currently accepts anything on left hand side anything but ascii 15:39:19 ... won't put in CR if no implementation 15:39:27 ... could put in FPWD of 5.3 15:39:37 ... but getting 5.2 CR out 15:39:57 jck: your recommendation is why browsers don't, e.g. a chicken and egg problem 15:40:08 chaals: reason to change right hand side, to push browsers 15:40:21 ... going back to russian example 15:40:38 ... punycode as helpful warning is only useful if assume ascii email address 15:40:49 ... not as powerful outside 15:41:04 jck: conclusion is correct, and correct for another reason mentioned on thread 15:41:23 ... because a couple of vendors have decided to implement local domains/domain names 15:41:35 ... that are not ACE but are in native encoding 15:41:43 -> https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/538 the email issue for the right-hand-side 15:41:48 ... advantages to browsers to keep in that form until late binding 15:41:52 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-minutes.html addison 15:42:47 chaals: recognize the problem 15:42:56 ... like HTML to push browsers to be helpful 15:43:06 ... lot of pushback on parent security issue 15:43:13 ... not well argued case? 15:43:31 ... getting some support to move in this direction is surprisingly hard 15:43:57 jck: would a letter from chinese government help? 15:44:06 chaals: yes, especially in github 15:44:13 jck: will try to get generated 15:44:32 chaals: better if they proded someone to implement support 15:44:59 addison: need to find a browser to do it? 15:45:04 chaals: yes 15:45:30 jck: arguably, what html should be doing is accepting what it gets and passing 15:45:58 ... keep in utf-* until it interfaces with i.e. smtp 15:46:06 ... html is trying to secondguess 15:47:35 addison: utility is to page authors, not necessarily about sending 15:47:53 chaals: don't think html got syntax right 15:48:10 ... they were inventing stuff at that time 15:48:26 ... comment for real serious use case and really want 15:48:37 ... at least in a draft, possibly marked "at risk" when goes in 15:48:46 ... saying we want is good, but need impleentation 15:49:35 jck: concern about ascii-only problem that goes back to at least html2 15:50:46 action: jck: stimulate non-ascii email advocates to provide feedback on EAI support in HTML 15:50:46 Created ACTION-637 - Stimulate non-ascii email advocates to provide feedback on eai support in html [on John Klensin - due 2017-07-20]. 15:51:01 chaals: expect call for consensus on 5.2 next week 15:51:23 ... also plan to start 5.3 15:51:36 ... from the 5.2 doc so can ship next year 15:51:52 ... do you anticpate an objection? 15:52:27 addison: don't expect to object 15:52:36 chaals: a formal statement would be helpful to me 15:52:54 action: addison: provide a formal statement on i18n position on eai in html 15:52:54 Created ACTION-638 - Provide a formal statement on i18n position on eai in html [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-07-20]. 15:53:11 chaals: easiest place to comment is on the issue 15:53:24 ... can post a pointer there 15:53:48 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-minutes.html addison 15:53:53 agenda? 15:54:15 zakim, take up agendum 4 15:54:15 agendum 4. "Radar" taken up [from addison] 15:54:27 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/1 15:56:39 action-622? 15:56:39 action-622 -- Bert Bos to Forward poe/ordl comments on behalf of bert -- due 2017-06-08 -- OPEN 15:56:39 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/622 15:58:08 Topic: AOB? 15:58:11 Topic: Info Share 15:58:20 richard: unicode in xml was published today 15:58:27 ... about an hour ago as a retired note 15:58:36 ... so at bottom of our list of our TRs 15:58:49 richard: have a new github repo called string-metadata 15:58:56 ... a hefty PR in there 15:59:36 addison: will take up 16:00:23 [Note that HTML 5.2 includes input type="datetime-local" which is a floating time zone. I'll see if it makes sense to comment on the question] 16:01:52 rrsagent, draft minutes 16:01:52 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-minutes.html r12a 16:11:34 present+ Jan 16:14:17 s/do on list/do in issue list/ 16:14:25 chaals-o has joined #i18n 16:15:13 rrsagent, draft minutes 16:15:13 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-minutes.html r12a 16:19:33 rrsagent, bye 16:19:33 I see 3 open action items saved in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-actions.rdf : 16:19:33 ACTION: addison: update floating times q+a to address confusing section at end [1] 16:19:33 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-irc#T15-10-54 16:19:33 ACTION: jck: stimulate non-ascii email advocates to provide feedback on EAI support in HTML [2] 16:19:33 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-irc#T15-50-46 16:19:33 ACTION: addison: provide a formal statement on i18n position on eai in html [3] 16:19:33 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/13-i18n-irc#T15-52-54 16:19:39 zakim, bye 16:19:39 leaving. 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