Re: [idn] hostname history hell

["James Seng/Personal" <jseng@pobox.org.sg>]

John,

> Neither Dave nor I used the word "useful".  I carefully avoided
> it and he probably did to.

Apologises. Not my intention too.

> The primary job of the WG is not to figure out a way to include
> anything that someone might think is useful.   The job is to
> incorporate international character identifiers into the DNS (I
> hope we all understand by now that "names" is as much a misnomer
> as "multilingual") while being carefulto not wreck the Internet
> or the DNS.  That "while" inherently implies tradeoffs and I
> believe that we should confine ourselves to the clearly-needed
> (and ideally lowest-risk) cases.  That is a much higher standard
> than "someone thinks this would be useful" or "there is market
> demand".

I agree with you above...But we seem to arrived in different conclusion:

I arrived to the conclusion because our job is to confirmed itself to
"incorporate international characters", then "picture-drawing" or
"symbol" been part of "international characters" should be allow in IDN.

Whether it is allowed in IHN is another question, one that have wordings
like "users requirements", "usefulness", "market research", "policies"
and something this wg may or may not be able to handle.

OTOH, you concluded that "picture-drawing", "symbol" etc should not be
allowed in IDN because it is not "clearly-needed (and ideally
lowest-risk)".

Both views are correct. We are drawing very very fine lines here.

-James Seng