Re: IDN and language

2005-01-04 Thread Bruce Lilly
Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, stability,  and extensions Date: 2005-01-01 19:56 From: Doug Ewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce Lilly blilly at erols dot com wrote: Domain names and language tags are different types of names, used for

Re: IDN and language

2005-01-04 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 04 January, 2005 09:38 -0500 Bruce Lilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One is not.  Domain names are strings of characters; only incidentally do they spell out one or more words in one or more languages.  I doubt whether the names Google, Yahoo, and AltaVista can be pinned down as

Re: IDN and language

2005-01-04 Thread John Cowan
John C Klensin scripsit: Returning to the DNS/IDN situation, ICANN has created a recommendation for all TLDs, and a requirement on at least some gTLDs, that languages not be mixed within a label and for registration and use of tables similar to those recommended by RFC 3743. This

Re: IDN and language

2005-01-04 Thread Peter Sylvester
ruled out because it mixes English and German? Sorry I can't resist: like in EdelWeb.fr ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IDN and language

2005-01-04 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 18:06 04/01/2005, John C Klensin wrote: Returning to the DNS/IDN situation, ICANN has created a recommendation for all TLDs, and a requirement on at least some gTLDs, that languages not be mixed within a label and for registration and use of tables similar to those recommended by RFC 3743.

Re: IDN and language

2005-01-04 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 04 January, 2005 12:52 -0500 John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John C Klensin scripsit: Returning to the DNS/IDN situation, ICANN has created a recommendation for all TLDs, and a requirement on at least some gTLDs, that languages not be mixed within a label and for

Re: IDN and language

2005-01-04 Thread John Cowan
John C Klensin scripsit: I suppose there are always exceptions. In particular, the recommendations of RFC 3743 are about tables of characters, not dictionary lookup. I know that -- I did read 3743 first. But in that case, whatever did you mean by ICANN has created a recommendation [...]

Re: IDN and language

2005-01-04 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 23:37 04/01/2005, John Cowan wrote: John C Klensin scripsit: I know that -- I did read 3743 first. But in that case, whatever did you mean by ICANN has created a recommendation [...] that languages not be mixed within a label? The first question (see may yesterday mail) is to define what we