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Re: [idn] Re: character tables

Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org> Wed, 02 March 2005 00:19 UTC

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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:16:07 -0800
To: Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org>
Subject: Re: [idn] Re: character tables
Cc: Erik van der Poel <erik@vanderpoel.org>, John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>, idn@ops.ietf.org
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At 12:03 PM +0000 3/2/05, Gervase Markham wrote:
>Could you tell us more about the problems you found with the ideas 
>of bundling and blocking?

It was impossible to come up with a bundling scheme that kept 
everyone happy. The needs of the Chinese language communities for 
bundling were different than the needs of the Scandinavian language 
communities, which in turn were different than the needs of the Indic 
language communities, which were different than the needs of the 
Arabic language communities, and so on. Then toss in the communities 
that truly want multiple scripts but want to avoid homograph attacks 
(yes, we really did think about that years ago...), and your brain 
starts dripping from your ears.

Other folks with more brains or who are less prone to dripping are 
welcome to try to fix this for the world, or at least for one 
community as the JET folks did.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium

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