RE: [idn] Proposed suggestions from Asia Pacific Top LevelDomain meeting

[bill@mail.nic.nu (J. William Semich)]

Well said!

Bill Semich


At 08:56 PM 3/11/00 +0100, Karlsson Kent - keka wrote: 
>>>>
> 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>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 
> > -- 
> > Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. / Internet Software Consortium 
> > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia 
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> > Mark.Andrews@nominum.com 
> >  
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