At 03:58 AM 3/11/2002 +0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
That's outrageous.
Hyperbole and sweeping, undocumented assertions are outrageous.
Forwarding specifications that have been carefully responsive to the
problem that the group was tasked with solving... now that is NOT
outrageous. It's what supposed to happen in the IETF and what has, in
fact, been done in IDN.
IDNA will cause a tremendous amount of damage,
Such false claims have been dealt with repeatedly. Continuing to make a
false claim does not make it true.
You say that you are obliged to ignore all these objections because the
IDN WG has to _do something_.
He did not say that. Hence there is no need to respond to the derivative
assertions from that falsehood.
d/
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