Re: [idn] call for comments for REORDERING

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

Apologies for taking so long to comment on this thread. However, 
given the comments from the last 48 hours, it is clear that comments 
from more people are needed.

The reordering proposal and its proponent are based on the faulty 
premise that there will be a need for very long domain names for the 
scripts that have been reordered. The fact that there are very long 
names in the Asian languages is irrelevant because there is no 
assumption that anyone would use those long names in domain names. 
The author seems to think that domain names have the same properties 
and regular names, which is of course wrong.

It is very troubling that the proposal's author pretty much ignores 
requests for clarifications with statements like "if you were a CJK 
person, you would know this". He has said that to people who are, in 
fact, well-known CJK experts. This is not the way that good standards 
are created.

So far, there has been no significant support for the proposal, and a 
lot of people objecting. I am in the latter category for the simple 
reason that the proposal adds complexity and overhead to fix a 
non-existent problem.

The WG should ignore this proposal unless the author can respond to 
questions and concerns from the rest of the WG.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
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