Re: [idn] nameprep forbidden characters

[James Seng <James@Seng.cc>]

Yet another crazy idea.

If RACE or some encoding which does not 7bit ASCII as-is is been choosen (in
otherwords, UTF-8 is out), then it _may_ be possible for domain names to have
":" or punctations with some consideration put in place without causing too
much havoc.

For Patrik sake, it is something to ponder about...:-))

ps: No, I am not suggesting we drop UTF-8!

-James Seng

Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> >Please forgive this naive question that has already been handled:
> >Does this mean that Patrik Falstrom will not be able to represent
> >his middle name?  It has a colon (:) in it.
> 
> Correct: he will not, according to the way the group has moved so
> far. Given the wide deployment of protocols and applications that
> parse URIs, it would be pretty severe to come back and say "you can
> now expect to find a colon in the middle of the host name part of a
> URI". Of course, this group might change its mind on this and other
> characters that are special for URIs. For example, if we are open to
> colons, are we also open to slash (/) characters, which are probably
> more common in corporate names than colons are? Where do we draw the
> line?
> 
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --Internet Mail Consortium