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

[Masataka Ohta <[e-mail]>]

Paul Hoffman wrote:

>>> If you want more clarification than that (and the reference to
>>> RFC5890 where it is discussed further), please send text.
>>
>> OK. Add the following:
>>
>>    As the upper case character corresponding to 'y' with diaeresis
>>    is not uniquely defined, for example, localized domain names
>>    are unusable
>>
>>    It should be noted that, extended case insensitivities beyond
>>    European characters, such as correspondence between Chinese
>>    ones, the problem is even more unsolvable.
>>
>> It should clarify how localized domain names are useless.
> 
> -1. There are different documents in which to beat this dead horse.

I sent text for more clarification because I was requested to do
so by some non-ASCII name.

But, I'm fine if draft-liman-tld-names- is abandoned and all
the RFCs related to localized domain names are declared to be
historic.

						Masataka Ohta

PS

While it is trivially easy to define ASCII representation of
Unicode, it is impossible to operate it, especially when
(extended) case insensitivities are involved.