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

David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> Mon, 15 November 2010 23:18 UTC

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On Nov 15, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Every draft on internationlization is not an
> opportunity to re-explore the rathole down which the IDNABIS working
> group laboured for several years.  

+<U+221E>

> All the current
> draft does is permit TLDs that are in conformance with IDNA2008,
> except that it attempts to make the change as small as possible in
> order to try to minimise the possibility of surprises from software
> that had understood RFC 1123 as protocol and not policy.

While I agree with the intent, I suspect we'll be revisiting this issue in the relatively near-term when folks realize that "1*63(ALPHA)" means they can't have their "fun4u" or "2go" TLDs.

> I think the document should be shipped as soon as possible.

Agreed.

Regards,
-drc