Re: Moving Towards UTF8 vs ASCII(ACE) Forever

2002-03-30 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >This depends on your definition of "on the wire"; if you want to >IDNs to just work, you would have to put the ASCII version into >URIs, too. Users *do* care about URIs. ...yet another reason why IDN represents a great deal of effort directed at solving

Re: Moving Towards UTF8 vs ASCII(ACE) Forever

2002-03-30 Thread Claus Färber
Keith Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote: > second, "ASCII for the rest of our lives" is a mischaracterization. > IDNA allows applications to accept and present IDNs in native > form, without requiring all applications and infrastructure to > upgrade before IDNs can be used. [...] > users don

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-etal-ietf-analysis-00.txt

2002-03-30 Thread Peter Deutsch
g'day, Greg Skinner wrote: . . . > I don't feel comfortable with the notion that the work of a WG should be > judged according to adoption of its protocols, particularly in terms of > traffic generated. All protocols are not equal; some have limited > utility by design, as they serve a limited c