At 00/12/03 13:57 -0500, Dave Crocker wrote:
Would it be such a bad thing to be unable to postal mail a letter or
package to anywhere in the world?
Of course it would be very bad. But it is usual now to send mail
e.g. from Japan to Japan with an address without any Latin letters.
It is also possible to send mail e.g. from the US or Europe to e.g.
Japan, with all but the country name in ideographs.
So the postal system is already now much closer to multilingual
domain names than to ASCII-only domain names.
It is also possible, as far as I understand, to send mail
with an address only written in Latin letters, to any country
in the world. The multilingual domain name solution should of
course provide a way (at least one way) to do this.
Please also note that Japanese name cards usually have two sides,
one in Japanese and one in Latin. Now, the email addresses on
both sides are the same, but in the future, you would just
use the one on the Latin side if you cannot type Japanese.
Regards, Martin.