Re: Balkanize - IDN ii

2000-12-07 Thread vint cerf
keep it simple. roughly: be tolerant in what you receive and conservative in what you send - (to promote interoperability). vint At 05:11 PM 12/7/2000 -0500, Dan Kolis wrote: >General question: >Jon Postel got amazing results... Many of the old(er) timers in this >business must have talked to

Re: Balkanize - IDN ii

2000-12-07 Thread Keith Moore
> Magazines have absolutely no interest in making it possible to enter URL > sucessfully you find in a printed publication. they do a much better job when the URL appears in paid advertisement copy.

Re: Balkanize - IDN ii

2000-12-07 Thread Dan Kolis
Dan Kolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: One reason the IDN thing is so daunting is the work arounds are not that bad. For instance, you can embed a backgroundless GIF into a web page and have any ideogram link to a URL. That's nearly ideal in many ways. Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >only if yo