Re: [weirds] Basis for BOF request for Taipei

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Fri, 30 September 2011 16:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [weirds] Basis for BOF request for Taipei
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>>  1.  Complete support for internationalization of queries and
>>    responses, including a standard representation for IDNs and
>>    non-ASCII text in queries and responses, and ways to indicate
>>    language preferences for responses. ...
>
>> It seems to me that the likely outcome there is use UTF-8
>> everywhere, give or take some rules about when to use U-labels
>> or A-labels.
>
> Folks wanting "language negotiation" should use a Web interface,
> HTTP supports this.

Good point.  If we do some REST-ish thing, it'd probably be fine to tell 
people to put their language tags in the http query.  If we do something 
else, extra hackery may be needed.  Either way, I think it would be a good 
idea to say that all responses must be in RFC 5198 network Unicode.

> And the most convoluted i18n interface doesn't help me to get a
> technical contact for say domain arbeitssocke.de abused in some
> Amazon phishing if the response is like this:
>
> % Error: 55000000002 Connection refused; access control limit exceeded

We all have the same problem, but it does not work for an RFC to say "you 
MUST return data that you don't want to return."

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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