Re: [idn] Thoughts on nameprep

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

At 23.24 +0000 01-03-10, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
>Half-width Japanese kana, for example, are bad. Registrars will reject
>names that contain half-width kana. But do we need to convert half-width
>kana to full-width kana?
>
>Patrik and Martin have repeatedly told us that the answer is yes. Users
>will see Japanese domain names in print and type half-width kana into
>the computer, Patrik says. They'll expect to connect to the same site.
>
>But Bruce, writing from Japan, says that the answer is no. Users type
>full-width kana. Redeploying network software to convert half-width kana
>to full-width kana, as Patrik is insisting that we do, would be idiotic.

I would appreciate you stopping modify and falsify what pepople talk 
about on this mailing list, and I urge the wg chairs to please see 
that the discussions stays focused on what your agenda is instead of 
being dragged into a rathole full of FUD which we currently is 
swimming around in.

I have been saying that codepoint definitions, and mappings, are not 
to be defined by the IETF, but some other organizations like the 
Unicode Consortium.

   paf