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Re: [idn] Name entry
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] Name entry
- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:54:29 -0800
- Delivery-date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:10:33 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
>I can't see that there is any need to be able to enter every domain on
>every terminal.
Correct. No one on this list has you have to.
> If I want a domain just for a website with i e Swedish
>text only, there is no reason for it to have an ASCII only equivalent.
It appears that you are proposing "web-only" domain names. That goes
against the basic principles of the Internet's reliance on the DNS. For
example, what if you want to do TLS on that web site? You cannot get a
certificate for it because the specification for certificates requires only
ASCII characters. Some of the protocols for Internet administration tools
probably also have similar restrictions.
It would do a great disservice to people to say "you can get this domain
name" but not to list all of the things they cannot do with it. In fact, it
is even a disservice to create a class of domain names that cannot be used
by all Internet services. There is a wide expectation among Internet users
that domain names can be used anywhere; why break that now?
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium