Re: [idn] proposed wg charter, goal & milestone update

[David Hopwood <david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk>]

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James Seng/Personal wrote:
> Apologise for the late update as it taken some time to get the wordings
> right. I shall list all the changes first and then the complete charter
> below. Please comment.
> 
> Changes 1: Add wordings to clarify the concept of "names vs identifiers"
> 
> "Domain names is one form of identifier. It does not have the technical
> capability to encode names or languages information."

The DNS *could* encode language/script information (or relations between
corresponding names in different languages/scripts); all that would need
is a new RR. What is true is that the names themselves are not language-
tagged.

Also, the requirements draft makes a useful distinction between domain
names (which are octet strings) and host names (which are character
strings). Both are identifiers.

I suggest:

  "Domain names and host names are forms of identifier. Language
  information is not encoded in these names; that is, names from
  different languages are defined in a single namespace."

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