"Any system anywhere" (Re: [idn] The report from the design team)

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 20:53 13/02/2001 -0800, Eric A. Hall wrote:
>IMO we should be treating IDNS the same way. We are limiting ourselves by
>an artifical and unreasonable restriction when we demand that all
>proposals must "allow any system anywhere to resolve any internationalized
>domain name." That requirement should be removed from the spec completely.

I believe the intent of the paragraph was to say "allow any system anywhere 
THAT IMPLEMENTS THE IDN SPECIFICATION to resolve any internationalized 
domain name".

The scenario it was aimed to prevent was one where multiple enclaves of 
"IDN" names existed, where one could not resolve those names without 
passing through the gateways for that particular enclave.

I propose the version above (without caps) as replacement text.

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