Re: [db-wg] Internationalized domain names in the data abase?

2019-11-06 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg
In message <20191106210554.gb5...@hydra.ck.polsl.pl>, Piotr Strzyzewski wrote: >I do not object having properly coded non-ASCII email addresses in the >database. First, just to be clear, we are really only discussing the representation of domain names within the data base. Of course, any emai

Re: [db-wg] Internationalized domain names in the data abase?

2019-11-06 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg
In message <1aa95ad8-3729-4bbb-a921-1535429a9...@ripe.net>, Edward Shryane wrote: >>> DB-WG: should we allow non-ASCII addresses in the RIPE database? >> >> Do you mean email addresses or street addresses as well? >> > >I mean to continue to allow non-ASCII (i.e. Latin-1 encoded) IDN email >addr

Re: [db-wg] Internationalized domain names in the data abase?

2019-11-06 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg
In message , Edward Shryane wrote: >> What I found was *not* an internationalized domain name, per se. Well, >> maybe it was/is and maybe it wasn't/isn't. I'll let you all decide, >> and then you can tell me if I have used improper terminology to >> descrtbe what I found. > >The email address

Re: [db-wg] Internationalized domain names in the data abase?

2019-11-06 Thread Piotr Strzyzewski via db-wg
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 09:47:33PM +0100, Edward Shryane wrote: Hi Edward, DB-WG, > > On 6 Nov 2019, at 21:17, Piotr Strzyzewski > > wrote: > > > >> DB-WG: should we allow non-ASCII addresses in the RIPE database? > > > > Do you mean email addresses or street addresses as well? > > > > I me

Re: [db-wg] Internationalized domain names in the data abase?

2019-11-06 Thread Edward Shryane via db-wg
Hi Piotr, DB-WG, > On 6 Nov 2019, at 21:17, Piotr Strzyzewski wrote: > >> DB-WG: should we allow non-ASCII addresses in the RIPE database? > > Do you mean email addresses or street addresses as well? > I mean to continue to allow non-ASCII (i.e. Latin-1 encoded) IDN email addresses, such as

Re: [db-wg] Internationalized domain names in the data abase?

2019-11-06 Thread Piotr Strzyzewski via db-wg
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 04:04:11PM +0100, Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote: Hi! > DB-WG: should we allow non-ASCII addresses in the RIPE database? Do you mean email addresses or street addresses as well? > > P.S. Not that anybody should really care, but for this one lone resarcher > > it would b

Re: [db-wg] [Ext] Re: NWI-10 Definition of Country

2019-11-06 Thread Leo Vegoda via db-wg
Arash, Arash Naderpour wrote: > What you name it as "meaningless values" are not meaningless to > the organizations that they are using it. How do we know that all, or even most, users of the data infer the same meanings? Has the RIPE NCC or anyone else ever measured what people understand th

Re: [db-wg] Internationalized domain names in the data abase?

2019-11-06 Thread Edward Shryane via db-wg
Hello Ronald, DB-WG, > On 6 Nov 2019, at 00:13, Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg wrote: > >>> I have found at least one specific case where an IDN does appear >>> in the data base as a UTF-8 encoded string, but since I had >>> never seen that before, I just wanted to know if that was an >>> anomalo

Re: [db-wg] NWI-10 Definition of Country

2019-11-06 Thread Arash Naderpour via db-wg
Hi Denis, What you name it as "meaningless values" are not meaningless to the organizations that they are using it. When you request a new allocation from NCC you will be asked to *"specify the country which the allocation will be announced"*, and based on your selection the country code will be