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Re: [idn] Proposed suggestions from Asia Pacific Top Level Domain meeting
- To: Dongman Lee <dlee@icu.ac.kr>, idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] Proposed suggestions from Asia Pacific Top Level Domain meeting
- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:52:05 -0800
- Cc: iname@aptld.org, bill@mail.nic.nu, James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg>, konishi@jp.apan.net, kwu@yam.com, syhan@cclab.konkuk.ac.kr, markk@netsol.com, zwh@cnnic.net.cn, chang@netpia.com, tinwee@pobox.org.sg, chon@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr, bmanning@ISI.EDU, kwu@yam.com.tw
- Delivery-date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:53:16 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
Comments on issues that haven't been discussed yet.
>Issue 2: Resolve any domain name anywhere.
>
>We refer to Section 2.1, paragraph 1.
>
>Recommendation:
>
>We feel it is best phrased as "...to allow any system anywhere to
>resolve any
>Internet multilingual domain name..."
"multilingual" isn't really appropriate here. "internationalized" is more
accurate.
>Issue 4: The requirement should concern with protocol, not
>implementation.
>
>We refer to 2.1 paragraph 1, on the phrase "DNS interoperability".
>
>We feels that the word "interoperability" is unfairly bias that
>implementation
>has to "interoperability" even with broken implementation. However, we
>have no
>proposal on the replacement for the word but we would appreciate a
>proper
>rephrasing to reflect this principle.
>
>No recommendation at this moment.
Maybe "DNS protocol interoperability" would suffice.
>Issue 5: What is a current domain name? What is IDN?
>
>We refer to Section 1.1, paragraph 2.
>
>RFC1034 Section 3.5 is a poor definition of domain name. A better one is
>
>RFC1123. However, we also noted that even RFC1123 is not sufficient to
>define
>a host name and domain name properly.
>
>We need a properly definition of label, domain and host. It is funny to
>note
>that we are doing IDN without even able to properly define IDN.
>
>Recommendation:
>
>We need more data and information and give a better definition.
How does this sound:
"Current domain name" is defined as a domain name that contains only the
characters U+002D, U+0030 through U+0039, U+0041 through U+005A, and U+0061
through U+007A, and which begins with any of these characters except U+002D.
"IDN" is used in this document as an abbreviation for "internationalized
domain name". This is defined as a domain name that contains one or more
characters that are outside the set of characters specified for current
domain names.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium