At 09:06 AM 12/7/00 -0600, Robert G. Ferrell wrote:
>I would hazard a guess that the vast majority
>of Internet message addressing is done automatically through the use of
>bookmarks/hyperlinks or email address books, anyway.
This line of reasoning has shown up regularly for 20 years, or so. Yes,
before the web. The claim, then, was about email address book dominance.
However much such point-and-click mechanisms get used, there remains the
need for human-to-human, non-electronic transfer of addresses, be they
email or web, on billboards, business cards, and the like.
If we did not already have very wide-scale use of ascii, it might be worth
considering numerals as the common form. But that wide-scale use is
everywhere.
The entire point behind the IDN effort is to let communities use domain
names in a form that is particularly comfortable for that community.
This does not eliminate a "common" form; nor does it show up any particular
deficiencies of ascii as that form, nor benefits of digits as the form.
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