Re: [DNSOP] draft-liman-tld-names-04

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:55:02PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> 
> As is explained in wikipedia
> 
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet
> 
> arabic letters have four forms, "isolated", "end", "middle"
> and "beggining" and the form is determined by the location
> of a letter within a word. Thus, they are not different
> from Latin distinctions of capital/small letters, which is
> determined by the location of a letter within a sentence.

I don't see how any of the above (or any of the rest of the message,
which I clipped but which betrays a misunderstanding of nuances of
writing systems more or less as complete as the misunderstanding
demonstrated above) has anything at all to do with the current draft.
I think Ohta-san has made it clear that he thinks IDNA is broken.
Point noted.  But there's a whole list devoted to the topic of IDNA,
and I don't believe it's in scope for this draft.  The draft accepts
IDNA as a foundation, and proceeds from there.  IDNA2008 is a standards
track IETF project, and it is therefore legitimate for an I-D to start
with that specification as a starting point.

If one thinks the standards track IDNA2008 specification is wrong or
won't work (I suggested this before), one can go write a draft that
says so.

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