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Re: [idn] Comments on protocol drafts
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] Comments on protocol drafts
- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 09:03:13 -0800
- Delivery-date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 09:03:23 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 12:02 PM 2/8/00 +0900, Martin J. Duerst wrote:
>- It is desirable (i.e. not a must) that ASCII characters only
> represent ASCII characters.
What is the technical reason for this desire in the encoding? It seems no
different to me than saying "it is desirable that ISO 8859-5 characters
only represent ISO 8859-5 characters" and so on.
As long as an all-ASCII domain name part such as we have today never has a
second, different encoding (and we already have this as a strong
requirement), I don't see any reason to give ASCII characters any special
value in the encoding.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium