At 11:23 PM +0000 10/19/01, Adam M. Costello wrote: > > The reordering proposal and its proponent are based on the faulty >> premise that there will be a need for very long domain names for the >> scripts that have been reordered. > >Actually, he has said many times that his goal is not only to allow long >domain names, but also to make average domain names easier for humans to >cope with when they are forced to see the ACE.
You are right, he has said that, but it is so absurd that I ignored it. A ten-character string of ASCII gibberish is as hard to "cope with" as a twelve-character string of ASCII gibberish. (These are approximately the lengths you would get for a name part that consists of four Han characters.) --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
