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Re: [idn] An experiment with UTF-8 domain names
- To: "J. William Semich" <bill@mail.nic.nu>, idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] An experiment with UTF-8 domain names
- From: Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:36:01 +0100
- Delivery-date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 08:40:50 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 08.48 -0500 01-01-06, J. William Semich wrote:
>Not to mention it would be hard for most people to remember.
That was my point when I said that people would try to use the
original IDN version.
>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.
But, that would not work if not the top level domain "48" exists. If
it was an IPv4 address literal you wanted to write it is
syntactically wrong (you forgot the '[' and ']') and even if that was
what you wanted that would not work either as the IP address change
quite often for my mail host.
paf