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On 01/02/12 15:21, Michael Kay wrote: > On 01/02/2012 14:44, Tei wrote: >> On 1 February 2012 13:08, David Lee<dlee@c...> wrote: >> ... >>> Encoding still is a hard problem but I can't accept that Ignorance >>> was the >>> cause of it missing from the HTTP specs. >>> >> Using ascii was a adecuate solution. Solved the problem at the time, >> for the people that needed a solution. Maybe not for everyone forever, >> but that can be solved by new protocols. >> > Well, for some of the people that needed a solution, anyway. > > More to the point, the Europeans were locked in debate over ideal > standards like X.400 and ODA that solved every requirement under the > sun, while the Americans just hacked together something that worked; and > most of the Americans had never met anyone with an umlaut in their name. The OSI stuff was truly a nightmare to implement. An object lesson in how not to construct a suite of protocols. Perhaps the sole legacies of X.500 are the ghastly mess that is AD internals, and the use of the word "distinguished" :-) > Cheap and cheerful won the day, and we are all still paying the price. "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me" :-) ///Peter
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