The entier point with this exercise is to eventually be able to use
"internationalised" what-ever-you-want-to-call-it for identifying
web sites as well as e-mail "sites". I.e., the point is to eventually
allow HTTP and ESMTP/something to be able to access sites like
www.öland.se and send/recieve e-mail with adresses like
Niklas.Åberg@Älvdalen-skog.se. And so on for the worlds all
languages/ortographies. If that is not the goal, then all of this is
entirely futile. Apart from that, I don't really care what you *call*
those names (domain names, host names, whatever-you-fancy).
Kind regards
/kent k
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com [mailto:Mark.Andrews@nominum.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 1:14 PM
> To: idn
> Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org; marka@isc.org
> Subject: Re: [idn] Proposed suggestions from Asia Pacific Top
> LevelDomain meeting
>
>
>
> > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 Mark.Andrews@nominum.com wrote:
> >
> > > Telnet uses host names.
> > > Email uses host names or mail domains (these should both be
> > > syntactically identical).
> > > HTTP uses host names.
> > > Traceroute uses host names.
> > > hosts.equiv uses host names.
> > > host.allow/host.deny uses host names.
> > >
> > > Personally I would like to see a similar distinction with IDNS.
> > > i.e. any character in a international domain name, a very
> > > restricted character set(s) in a international host name.
> >
> > I must confess that I am quite new to this mailing list.
> > If my question is silly, please forgive me.
> >
> > The above list shows that most major applications use host names.
> > Then, in what applications, can/do we use domain names?
>
> Windows 2000 makes extensive use of domains that are not
> host names.
>
> Hesoid makes use of domains that are not host names.
>
> Mark
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