Re: [idn] Thoughts on nameprep

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

At 19.53 +0900 01-03-10, Bruce Thomson wrote:
>Isn't this sort of like the question of ligatures in English? I used to type
>a lot on keyboards with ff, ffi, and other fun keys, and I miss them. :P
>Isn't e-acute-accent just a ligature? If we were to just make ligatures
>illegal in domain names, would the screams be all that loud?

(a) No, they are not only ligatures
(b) IETF should not even think about creating rules for what is equal 
or not. IETF should reference what other organizations do, and 
current nameprep references what Unicode Consortium have defined.

I.e. this discussion doesn't belong here.

    paf