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Re: [idn] Document Status?
Gentlemen,
I see three different problems discussed here.
1. wording of the process
On 04:40 02/09/02, James Seng said:
These definition is a bit different from the layman defintion of
"international" and "local" in Jefsey's email. But we engineers have to be
more precise.
This is true. This why we engineers :-) cannot use inappropriate names. A
word has a meaning by itself. This is all what this work is about.
"international" cannot mean "using a particular scriptural form" in
"ietf/idner". "Local" cannot mean anything else than related to a
particular location.
It seems from the debate that "scripturalization" would be the intent. And
that International Domain Names are the domain names containing "IESG--"
labels.
2. readability of the proposed text.
I must say that with my limited French speaking IQ I tried to figure out
the meaning of "ACE" in the proosed text: sorry, but I was totally unable
to grasp it. The text seems often over complex to me, most probably from
being a compromise between different visions of the target? I think it
should not on a matter that many different cultures will consider as central.
3. layer violation
3.1. the DNS is to match immaterial domain names and numeric physical
addresses. This permits applications and hypertexts to be independent from
the actual configuration of the network.
3.2. mnemonics are a way to easily memorize something else like JFK for
"Kennedy Airport". They are aliases. In very seldom occasions (famous
names) the name itself has acquired enough recognition to be its own
mnemonic. In other occasion (neighbor names) a simple mental transcoding
permits to find the alias (ibm and ibm.com; or "ibm.net+not .com" ibm is
not a real mnemonic for me for "ibm.tp")
Scripturalized and Internationalized strings are aliases. The transcoding
is here usually complex (it can be very simple in the case of
"jean-françois.fr" and "jean-francois.fr").
There are two different layers. Some questions belong to the DNS.2 layer:
have we to enlarge the DNS character set? Others belong to the DNS+ layer
(extended applications on top of the DNS) and may receive many different or
even opposing responses as long as the result is what the user expects.
jfc