IRC log of i18n on 2012-06-13

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trackbot, prepare teleconference
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RRSAgent, make logs world
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Zakim, this will be 4186
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ok, trackbot; I see I18N_CoreWG()11:00AM scheduled to start in 9 minutes
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Meeting: Internationalization Core Working Group Teleconference
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Date: 13 June 2012
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Agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2012Jun/0001.html
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Chair: Addison Phillips
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Scribe: Addison Phillips
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ScribeNick: aphillip
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rrsagent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/06/13-i18n-minutes.html aphillip
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zakim, ??p15 is me
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+koji; got it
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+Addison_Phillips
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+[Microsoft]
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zakim, ??p20 is me
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+matial; got it
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zakim, ??P3 is andrewc
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+andrewc; got it
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Topic: Agenda and Minutes
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Topic: Action Items
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close ACTION-101
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ACTION-101 Extend number of ports for I18N call to 15 closed
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ACTION-109: koji: haven't heard back, will ping again
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ACTION-109 Check about Korean layout task force notes added
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zakim, +1.415 is me
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+Norbert; got it
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close ACTION-130
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ACTION-130 Write to www-international, including decriptions of other lists from about page, announcing changes in our use of list closed
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Topic: Info Share
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andrew: working for state gov't creating guidelines on how they use translations on the web
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... especially focusing on new/emerging languages
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... that have limited support
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... will be probably public
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Topic: IRI and IRI bidi documents
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http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Review_radar
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-iri-3987bis-09
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http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-00
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/06/13-i18n-minutes.html aphillip
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-iri-3987bis-11
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-iri-comparison-01
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Norbert: thought comparison document looked fine
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matial: no problem with it
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-iri-bidi-guidelines-02
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matial: may be different for hebrew vs. arabic users
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... or even between individual users
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... still trying to do usability tests
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matial: one thing I don't like in document is that there is too much freedom
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... not as critical what we decide as long as mandatory
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... e.g. in Section 3
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... talks about components
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... domain, segment, etc.
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... each one should laid out independently of other components
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... and then components can be subdivided, such as labels in domain names
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... but if labels allowed to swap (or not) in implementations, it should be consistent
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... be normative rather than optional
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matial: once we have a consensus, it should be enforced
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Norbert: trying to specify "what is a good bidi iri"
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... but spoofers are not interested in "good bidi IRIs"
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... so standard needs to specify what happens (reject, color address bar)
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addison: are we ready to say something (and what)
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matial: way to display IRIs should become unique for all browsers
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addison; consistent, right?
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matial: same IRI displayed same way in all user-agents
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draft email
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addison: draft email about sense of WG? or come back next week? preference?
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norbert: there is no consensus in IRI community
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addison: problem is that there is diversity of opinion and we're unlikely to achieve a consensus of "100% minus one person"
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foo/bar/baz/example.com://http
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aharon: side of bus is RTL, and works when typed in, but when some LTR thing is added to the URL, the whole thing changes direction, alarming user
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addison: some sense of a base implicit direction of LTR
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aharon: anyone with a RTL domain name will be unhappy if the domain is in LTR context
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/06/13-i18n-minutes.html aphillip
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... think there will be strong objections to consistently LTR IRIs
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addison: other possibility is that it's insoluable and doesn't get (need to get) solved
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... just guidelines for IRI beauty
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aharon: if you have an all RTL domain name/site name, you should take pains to create all RTL URIs (including path)
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... if you don't, it'll look ugly
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... but limit to how much those guidelines will be possible to follow
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... since parts such as query can't be fully controlled
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... or parts of the domain may be just an alias for an LTR name
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... would be value in publishing guideline
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andrew: two basic scenarios
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... IRI that is fully LTR and IRI that is fully RTL---both work consistently
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... when you mix that the problem occurs
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... so guidance on how to display
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... and guidance to e.g. CMS developers
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... so that they can implement in ways that makes sense and works
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addison: so... what to do/say at this point?
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... cut to chase with "guidelines"? or "normative display"? or?
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aharon: what about giving user preferences time to shake out, give time to user testing
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matial: some testing planned, but not happening yet
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... users of different proficiency how they perceive IRI (such as napkin/bus)
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... or when told, how they write it
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... hopefully these not-as-extensive-as-maybe-would-like will give us a sense
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... maybe get results in the next two or three months
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... but may get different results
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... maybe indication
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... might not be perfect
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... but solve simple cases
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... based on TLD, which is unlikely to change
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com.EGYPT
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EGYPT.com
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com.tpyge
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مصر.com
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/06/13-i18n-minutes.html aphillip
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norbert: e.g. if you have entirely RTL domain name, you can do one thing
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sorry, I've got go...
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.. but also have to say how to make spoofs detected
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Topic: AOB?
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norbert: will there be user tests of IRIs in Arabic speaking countries?
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gwyneth: can follow up with Shawn
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addison: for next time?
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norbert 3987bis and ruby?
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addison: no objections?
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... will send links
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مصر.com
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andrew: which is TLD?
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-Gwyneth
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-aphillip
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-matial
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-koji
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-Norbert
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-andrewc
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I18N_CoreWG()11:00AM has ended
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Attendees were koji, aphillip, matial, andrewc, Gwyneth, +972.7.474.6aaaa, +1.415.885.aabb, Norbert
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rrsagent, make minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/06/13-i18n-minutes.html aphillip
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zakim, bye
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rrsagent, bye
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I see no action items