Re: comments on draft-ietf-sming-reqs-02.txt: I18n

[Frank Strauss <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

Hi!

DP> Let's put the language aside and ask the real question, which is
DP> "What character set must be supported by compilers of the language?"
DP> Supporting UTF8, or any character set other than 7-bit displayable
DP> ASCII will cause additional work and possible interoperability 
DP> problems. 

I don't expect significantly more work.
As Mike, I think the benefit of a more flexible character set outweighs
the loss of international characters, e.g. when mapping SMIng to SMIv2.
Do you have other interoperability problems in mind?

 -frank