Re: [idn] host name vs. domain name

[James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

Hear hear! Great summary of the 'fight' going on in this WG. While I am more
of the latter camp, I think it is too early to say who is right or wrong. 

Overall, I think this would make a great start for the comparsion doc Paul is
working on. :)

-James Seng

John C Klensin wrote:
>      * Internationalization is so important, and the Internet
>      has been all-ASCII long enough, that we need to move
>      rapidly forward with the former.  If the consequence of
>      that is to break all of the ASCII-only sites and
>      applications, their crashing and burning will just give
>      them extra incentive to update their software and systems
>      to an international (or character-set-neutral) base.
> 
>      * The installed base must be preserved at all costs, and it
>      simply isn't plausible or responsible to deploy a plan that
>      will break any existing application, service, or host.