44. A method for conveying locale information for an electronic device, comprising: receiving, from a remote device and via a network interface of at least one network interfaces of an electronic device, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device; sending, 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, 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.
44. A method for conveying locale information for an electronic device, comprising: receiving, from a remote device and via a network interface of at least one network interfaces of an electronic device, a request for active or available locales for the electronic device; sending, 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, 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. 46. The method of claim 44 , wherein each locale comprises a location for the electronic device and a language for the device, wherein the language is location-specific to identify features of the identified language that are specific to the location or a dialect identified by the location in combination with the language.