[DNSOP] IDNs and ccTLDs

2009-03-08 Thread Jim Reid
On 8 Mar 2009, at 03:57, Måns Nilsson wrote: I mean, that for the (previously alleged to be more interesting wrt IDN) ccTLD part of the name space, ISO 3166, with its (at least actual if not formal) limitation to two characters from A-Z, should fix the issue of IDNA in TLD labels, leaving

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action:draft-liman-tld-names-00.txt

2009-03-08 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
Does not ISO3166 solve that problem for us with regards to allowed characters in the TLD label? No. The alpha-2 used for ccTLD labels (and also the alpha-3) codes are restricted to the set A-Z. jaap ___ DNSOP mailing list

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action:draft-liman-tld-names-00.txt

2009-03-08 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On söndag, söndag 8 mar 2009 10.59.16 +0100 Jaap Akkerhuis j...@nlnetlabs.nl wrote: Does not ISO3166 solve that problem for us with regards to allowed characters in the TLD label? No. The alpha-2 used for ccTLD labels (and also the alpha-3) codes are restricted to the set

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action:draft-liman-tld-names-00.txt

2009-03-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Patrik Fältström wrote: The problem with writing exact objective rules is that with the 6000 languages, and enormous number of codepoints, it is extremely hard to create say a regular expression that we know is _absolutely_ correct regarding