RE: Layer 2 and "idn identities" (was: Re: [idn] what are the

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As an example, I don't think it is desirable to restrict the use of
Hebrew to Israel or .il, whichever, nor do I like the idea that users
here will not be able to use other languages, although there is the
practical problem that the registrar must be able to read them.

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-idn@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-idn@ops.ietf.org]
> On Behalf Of Paul Hoffman / IMC
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 5:43 AM
> To: DougEwell2@cs.com; idn@ops.ietf.org
> Cc: liana.ydisg@juno.com; klensin@jck.com
> Subject: Re: Layer 2 and "idn identities" (was: Re: [idn]
> what are the IDN identifiers?)
>
>
> At 8:25 PM -0500 11/30/01, DougEwell2@cs.com wrote:
> >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
> >character>apart.
>
> Of course, it goes much further than com/net/org. Most of the
> registrations in the smaller ccTLDs that are selling their names are
> from the US.
>
> And then there is the question of assuming the script that is used in
> the new gTLDs...
>
> And then there is the question of what it means to be "in" a
> country...
>
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --Internet Mail Consortium
>
>
>