James;
As you could have seen, on IETF mailing list, Harald and I have, at
least, agreed that, if you use unicode based encoding, local context
(or locale) must be carried out of band
Few will disagree (including me) that using Unicode to do localization is
almost impossible without locale context.
Huh? No one said such a thing.
What is agreed is that, to use unicode, it must be supplied out of
band local context.
So, could you explain how the context is supplied with current IDN spec?
But I am touching on a sensitive topic about what you considered as I18N &
L10N and what the rest of the world thinks.
Totally irrelevant.
But, anyway, the discussion so far in IETF list is enough to deny IDN.
I am not aware there was a IETF wide last call on IDN yet.
To deny IDN, IESG can simply say "IDN is disbanded". There is no last
call necessaruy.
I have found a theory to deny PKI and to explain why public key
cryptograpy is not so polular dispite the efforts of ISO, which will
destory entire business of a company or companies owing several
important TLDs.
Very interesting. Could you share the theory, or privately if you prefer?
I will post it later if I have time.
Masataka Ohta