Re: [idn] Which names are valid?

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

--On 10. august 2001 19:35 +0100 David Hopwood <david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk> 
wrote:

> The definitions in that draft are not entirely satisfactory. For example,
> consider "_ldap._tcp.Ï?.com". This is clearly a domain name, and it is
> clearly internationalized, so the most sensible thing to call it would be
> an internationalized domain name. However, it is not a hostname (although
> "Ï?.com" is). It makes no sense to lose the useful distinction between
> hostnames and domain names just because they are internationalized.

the draft was written after we had already established the IDN WG's name.
It would be logical to call Ï.com an Internationalized Host Name, and 
_ldap._tcp.Ï.com an Internationalized Domain Name, but at the time, 
changing the definition of an IDN that most people in the group had in 
their minds didn't seem worth it.

This may have been a mistake.

                Harald