Re: [idn] nameprep forbidden characters

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

At 12.02 -0700 00-09-16, Dave Crocker wrote:
>At 12:19 PM 9/16/00 +0800, James Seng wrote:
>>Erm, I think we are re-openning an issue which I thought we resolve. ie. IDN
>>means adding Internationalized Characters into Domain Names. We are not going
>>to change the principle to allow punctation or symbols...
>>
>>I think we have one big difficult problem at hand now. I not sure we are able
>>to handle the problems symbols like &, @, ' or even . is going to bring us.
>
>
>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.

If I personally can move this standard forward by saying that I have 
no interest in having a domainname which as a label (or part of) have 
my middle name "H:son", I am happy to do so.

Sometimes it is easy to help humanity :-) :-) :-)

    paf