41. An electronic device comprising: at least one network interface; a processor; and a memory, wherein the memory comprises instructions configured to cause the processor to: receive, from a remote device and via a network interface of the at least one network interfaces, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device; send, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises: a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales; an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device, wherein the active locale field indicates a locale of a plurality of available locales that the electronic device currently employs in communication with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the active locale field comprises an active locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0001 that indicates that the following information identifies an active locale for the electronic device; and an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use by the electronic device, wherein the available locale field comprises a list of one or more available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the available locale field comprises an available locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0002 identifying the following information as available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with the remote service, wherein the active locale field may be read or written by any device that may securely connect to the electronic device using network or fabric credentials, and the available locale field may be read by any device that may securely connect to the electronic device using the network or fabric credentials.
41. An electronic device comprising: at least one network interface; a processor; and a memory, wherein the memory comprises instructions configured to cause the processor to: receive, from a remote device and via a network interface of the at least one network interfaces, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device; send, to the remote device and via the network interface, a message in a locale profile format including a list of available locales, wherein the message comprises: a version field that indicates a version of schema used to transmit the list of available locales; an active local field that indicates a locale currently being used by the electronic device, wherein the active locale field indicates a locale of a plurality of available locales that the electronic device currently employs in communication with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the active locale field comprises an active locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0001 that indicates that the following information identifies an active locale for the electronic device; and an available locales field that indicates which locales are available for use by the electronic device, wherein the available locale field comprises a list of one or more available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with a remote service, wherein the available locale field comprises an available locale field tag including a tag value of 0x0002 identifying the following information as available locales that the electronic device is capable of understanding or using to communicate with the remote device, with users, or with the remote service, wherein the active locale field may be read or written by any device that may securely connect to the electronic device using network or fabric credentials, and the available locale field may be read by any device that may securely connect to the electronic device using the network or fabric credentials. 42. The electronic device of claim 41 , wherein the version field includes a data payload that designates the version the version of the schema which the electronic device uses to transmit the list of available locales, wherein data in the data payload comprises an unsigned integer between 0 and 255, wherein each integer between 0 and 255 corresponds to the version of the schema of a plurality of schema versions used to encode locale information for the electronic device.