Re: [idn] IDNA: is the specification proper, adequate, and complete? (was: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idn-idna-08.txt)

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

Hmm...it seem to me that Lee is proposing something new, a directory
approach which includes various features etc. Therefore, I suggest Lee write
down his ideas in a new internet draft as a basis for further discussion.

-James Seng

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc@dcrocker.net>
To: "Soobok Lee" <lsb@postel.co.kr>
Cc: "IETF idn working group" <idn@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 3:39 AM
Subject: Re: [idn] IDNA: is the specification proper, adequate, and
complete? (was: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-idn-idna-08.txt)


> At 02:43 AM 6/23/2002 +0900, Soobok Lee wrote:
> >Each TLD registry can decide which one it deploy among "directory"
approach,
>
> A decision to use an 8-bit encoding scheme will be rather useless, since
> there is no standard specification for doing it.  The absence of a
standard
> means there is no interoperability.
>
>
> >Such directory approach allows each TLD registries to adopt its own
> >comparison rules,
>
> Oh?  Different rules for each TLD?  What about different for each level in
> the hierarchy, too?
>
> You appear to be intent on making architecture choices that ensure long
> term non-interoperability.  having many choices creates an architecture
> that does not scale.
>
>
> >Most TLD registries feel strongly the need to add  native labels in
*both*
> >UTF8 and local charsets,
>
> "local charsets"?  Whatever does that mean?
>
> And UTF-8 is merely an encoding scheme.  It is not the "native"
> representation of the character set.
>
> For that matter, I suspect most TLD registries neither know nor care about
> the technical details of UTF-8 vs. ACE, or the like.  They merely want a
> functioning, standard, interoperable IDN.
>
>
> >  The directory approach can fulfill these needs clealy and safely.
>
> By the way, the DNS is not a directory system.  This has been explained
> many times.
>
> d/
>
>
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