Table-building

[John C Klensin]

To remind people of something else that was said on the call, we 
are really looking, I think, for a three-state table consisting 
of
    Clearly yes now
    Not yet: need advice, refinement, and/or an identified user 
community
    Clearly no, now and forever.

rather than "ok" and "not ok".

Someone suggested on the call that many additional gradations 
are possible within the second category.  Certainly that is 
true.  I don't know how useful it would be in practice to try to 
tease them out, but people who are convinced that it is should 
certainly try to do that.

One of the implications of the three-state model is that we 
don't need to settle the question of which scripts are 
sufficiently archaic to be excluded: we put the lot of them into 
the middle category and see if a community of users of the 
script comes forward and makes a case for using it (or part of 
it) in domain names.

       john
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