Re: [idn] WG last call summary

["D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>]

James Seng writes:
> The email protests from Taiwan is not against the current set of drafts

Liar. The people you're talking about wrote in response to your Last
Call for IDNA. They told you that adopting IDNA would ``damage Internet
community in China and Taiwan'' and that adopting IDNA would cause
``conflicts and chaos for Internet users of Han characters.''

I agree that these objections are based on particular deficiencies in
the basic IDNA design decisions, and that other proposals with the same
deficiencies would receive the same objections. So what?

People are telling you that IDNA will damage the Internet community. You
are saying that other proposals will damage the Internet community too.
Don't you realize how stupid this sounds?

The bottom line, once again, is that at least fifteen regular WG
participants and _hundreds_ of other people have written messages to the
IDN mailing list in opposition to IDNA.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago