--- On Sun, 9/11/08, Ruszlan Gaszanov <ruszlan(_at_)ather(_dot_)net> wrote:
From: Ruszlan Gaszanov <ruszlan(_at_)ather(_dot_)net>
Subject: RE: Punycode at ASCII for IDN & MDN via Y2K Project Management
To: linuxalinux(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk, ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Date: Sunday, 9 November, 2008, 10:21 PM
......ASCII domain names *are* in fact
punycode domain names
by definition.
That's the problem and the reason for Punycode2 allowing ASCII registrations to
be Punycoded via Punicode2.
As soon as you want to encode ASCII characters with
something else, you'll
need a new parallel DNS infrastructure and at this point a
new version of
DNS protocol that works.......
You got this wrong because when you Punycode via Punycode2 ASCII registrations
you will have ASCII letters however they will be in machine code, same as IDN
thus equal virtue and for ASCII registrations to be viewed they will be viewed
similarly as IDN (Internationalized Domain Names / Internationalised Domain
Names) and here also equal virtue.
.......But the bottom line is that there is no
way to develop a
"new punycode" encoding ASCII domain names with
something else then ASCII
and implement that on existing DNS infrastructure without
completely
breaking the Internet, period.
Again you are putting something which I have not said for Punycode2. While you
wait for learning curve developments, I suggest you use ASCII based letters for
Punycode 2 however you machine code the ASCII registrations like you are doing
with IDN.
I am not a technical expert, however based on what I have gleaned can I suggest
the 2 IDN algorithms: ToASCII and ToUnicode perhaps would need tweaks hence
ToASCII2 and ToUnicode2 with perhaps ASCII registrations needing also an ACE
sort prefix, say yn-- similar to xn-- that are put for IDN. This development
could then allow MDN (Multilingual Domain Names) that would help the users that
are multilingual / would like multilingual text at domain name platform.
I hope this signals to you the urgency that is required for implementing.
Regards
Meeku
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