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Re: [idn] nameprep forbidden characters
- To: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Subject: Re: [idn] nameprep forbidden characters
- From: James Seng <James@Seng.cc>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 07:02:39 +0800
- Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:05:29 -0700
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
Yet another crazy idea.
If RACE or some encoding which does not 7bit ASCII as-is is been choosen (in
otherwords, UTF-8 is out), then it _may_ be possible for domain names to have
":" or punctations with some consideration put in place without causing too
much havoc.
For Patrik sake, it is something to ponder about...:-))
ps: No, I am not suggesting we drop UTF-8!
-James Seng
Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> >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.
>
> Correct: he will not, according to the way the group has moved so
> far. Given the wide deployment of protocols and applications that
> parse URIs, it would be pretty severe to come back and say "you can
> now expect to find a colon in the middle of the host name part of a
> URI". Of course, this group might change its mind on this and other
> characters that are special for URIs. For example, if we are open to
> colons, are we also open to slash (/) characters, which are probably
> more common in corporate names than colons are? Where do we draw the
> line?
>
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --Internet Mail Consortium