Re: [idn] An experiment with UTF-8 domain names

["J. William Semich" <bill@mail.nic.nu>]

At 09:24 AM 1/6/01 +0100, Patrik Fältström wrote:

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>I.e. I could register one day maybe:
>
>   fältström.com
>
>...but could also on my business card have (if the ACE ends up being RACE):
>
>   bq--abtoi3duon2hf5tn .com
>
>Yes, it looks ugly, ...

Not to mention it would be hard for most people to remember.

It looks a lot simpler to put "patrik@208.184.130.48" on your business card as the "ASCII alternative", and probably is much easier to remember. Exposing ACE to users begins to defeat the whole idea of using meaningful "domain names", ASCII or UNICODE, to simplify identification of hosts because "you can't remember all those numbers."

Numbers suddenly look a lot easier to remember than the ACE equivalences, I expect, ignoring the "portability" issue.

Bill




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