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Re: [idn] Unicode tagging
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Unicode tagging
- From: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 11:02:41 -0400
- Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:08:42 -0700
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 10:00 16/08/00, Keith Moore wrote:
>I think the basic idea is that labels should not be significantly
>more restricted in one language than another just because the on-the-wire
>representation of certain languages might take up more space than others.
Conceptually this is fine; it was the previously proposed
implementation of this concept that is seriously broken.
>But I don't know how to define a length limit that applies
>across all languages and is fair to all of them.
Concur. I seriously doubt it is actually practical to define
and implement a length limit that is fair to all language forms.
>Maybe we just need to make sure
>that the on-the-wire representation of labels is large enough to
>accomodate reasonably-long labels in any language.
This seems reasonable. We ought to ensure that the on-the-wire
protocol is not unduly restrictive on the length of labels.
Ran
rja@inet.org