Re: Layer 2 and "idn identities" (was: Re: [idn] what are the IDN identifiers?)

[DougEwell2@cs.com]

In a message dated 2001-11-30 17:04:52 Pacific Standard Time, 
liana.ydisg@juno.com writes:

> The country information has been in TLD already, it can be 
> addressed in Layer 3. 

Sorry, but I'm afraid that's not necessarily true either.  ".com", ".net", 
".org" do not necessarily denote locations in the United States, nor 
locations that are intended to be accessed in English.  It is entirely 
reasonable to expect people to want to register "<Han character><Han 
character><Han character>.com" and now our tagging scheme has fallen apart.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California