Stability of valid IDN labels
JFC Morfin
jefsey at jefsey.com
Mon Apr 21 17:19:30 CEST 2008
At 14:18 21/04/2008, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>(The example of the language tag registry, given by Mark Davis, is a
>better one, since language tags processors are not supposed to do
>online validation, so, for language tags, stability is necessary.)
I have real concerns about the LSR itself which has been discussed
purposely without relation with IDNA. However, I will raise anoher
related point. The IDNA principle is to add to the DNS without
changing the DNS. When the DNS was developped the point was to add to
Host.txt without changing Host.txt. This was correctly done since I
currently use Host.txt. Without any stability problem, and it supports IDNs.
My point is that this is not because we do not want to change the DNS
for those using regular domain names, that we are prevented from
discussing and implementing an IDNS for IDNs. In so doing, a
realistic way would be to start from DDDS. I hoped that the LSR
debate could lead to this. But constraining complications prevailed
over complexity simplification as often it first seems easier,
because one starts from something we think we control, while we do
not control yet the new complexity we are to address (as it is the
case with IDNA).
The way I see the progression is Host.txt -> DNS -> MDRS
(multilingual distributed referential system) where the DN support
stays the same. This third generation resolver should be an open and
versatile DDDS offering a personnalised super-IANA environment,
delivering DNS but also locale/netlocale (the way the network is
perceived from a locale POV), linguistic, and semantic referent
dynamic and customized information.
jfc
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