Re: [idn] call for comments for REORDERING

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

At 11:23 PM +0000 10/19/01, Adam M. Costello wrote:
>  > 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.
>
>Actually, he has said many times that his goal is not only to allow long
>domain names, but also to make average domain names easier for humans to
>cope with when they are forced to see the ACE.

You are right, he has said that, but it is so absurd that I ignored 
it. A ten-character string of ASCII gibberish is as hard to "cope 
with" as a twelve-character string of ASCII gibberish. (These are 
approximately the lengths you would get for a name part that consists 
of four Han characters.)

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