Re: [idn] iDNS re-chartering proposal, take 2

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>]

At 02:10 PM 10/27/2001, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:
> >    [[[  Question:  Why must we discuss writing order at all?  /Dave   ]]]
>
>Because of the Colourd Books (JANET) experience, leakage, and a strong
>preference for reverse ordering by large numbers of users for whom the
>wee.small.mid.big.top identifier odering is as counter-intuitive as
>identifiers-in-ASCII.


Hmmm.  Let me try to understand this, by starting from a really simple, 
really naive perspective:

         The registrant specifies a Domain Name that is series of 
characters. The characters are in whatever order the registrant chooses to 
put them.

         Translating them into ACE preserves the order.  The registrar and 
registry are preserve the order.  All other DNS processing modules preserve 
that order.

         The final module translates out of ACE, still preserving the order.

So it seems to me that the only job for the DNS international character set 
specifications is to make sure that the end-to-end behavior of the system 
is to preserve whatever ordering the registrant provided.

And now you, and others, can explain to me what it is that I am missing.

Encouragingly yours,

d/

>

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