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Re: [dnsext] does making names the same NEED protocol changes at all?

Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Fri, 25 February 2011 17:09 UTC

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:10:33 +0000
From: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
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--On 25 February 2011 11:49:35 -0500 Phillip Hallam-Baker 
<hallam@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is an idea, let us table this whole discussion until after we solve
> the problem of how to make the Internet accessible without let or
> hindrance from any point on the planet with minimal communications
> connectivity.

Perhaps I am being thick here, but I don't see anything but the most
tenuous connection between internet censorship and IDN variant support
in DNS.

I'm in general in favour the solution to this problem being "not to fix
it", but I think we owe people a better rationale for this than "some IDN
users censor internet traffic" which I suspect might be the link you
are making.

-- 
Alex Bligh

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