Could you tell us more about the problems you found with the ideas of bundling and blocking?
It was impossible to come up with a bundling scheme that kept everyone happy. The needs of the Chinese language communities for bundling were different than the needs of the Scandinavian language communities, which in turn were different than the needs of the Indic language communities, which were different than the needs of the Arabic language communities, and so on. Then toss in the communities that truly want multiple scripts but want to avoid homograph attacks (yes, we really did think about that years ago...), and your brain starts dripping from your ears.
Other folks with more brains or who are less prone to dripping are welcome to try to fix this for the world, or at least for one community as the JET folks did.
--Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
