Re: Fwd: Eeek - .NU Domains using

[Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>]

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% At 17:29 09.01.00 -0800, Bill Manning wrote:
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% >I'd be strongly in favor of not mixing glyphs between sets.
% 
% but we can't tell whether we are doing this without defining what a "set" 
% is, which gets us started down the implementation slippery slope.

	Punt to ISO, they've done a fine job of defining set creation.

% We can say that "there is no requirement for mixing A with B inside a 
% single label", where A and B are different subsets of the set of all 
% characters.
% Giving a few examples is probably Good Enough for the requirements.
% 
% A requirement that it should be illegal to do such mixing can be read as 2 
% things:
% - A technical requirement on the solution that it should be easy to identify
%    the subset a character comes from, and either prohibit the mixing or say
%    that there is no requirement on implementations that they support this
% - An administrative requirement that no such label should be registered.
% 
% The first one belongs in this group, IMHO. The last one doesn't.
% 
%                             Harald
% 

	Bingo. And what does the current, predominent implementation do 
	in this regard? 

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--bill