Re: Mississippi Hißes
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Fri Dec 11 19:41:20 CET 2009
On 11 Dec 2009, at 18:29, John C Klensin wrote:
>> I agree with you that Michael can put whatever he wants into
>> xxx.evertype.com. If, however, no client software ever ends up
>> going there, it doesn't matter much what he does. So if he wants to
>> have <$.evertype.com> (which equals <xn--vg7c.evertype.com>),
>> there isn't anything stopping him -
>> it just won't work in practice.
>
> But this is exactly where the relationship between some of our
> discussions and Internet reality turns problematic.
Indeed, and if my domains refused to resolve I would be pretty annoyed.
> There are a few open source browsers and several more open source
> mail clients, and clients for other applications, out there.
Lots and lots of them. And many are used in public administration in
some jurisdictions.
> Even for some of the things that aren't open source, plugins work
> and often aren't hard to construct. So such names might be of use
> only to Michael and whatever friends he got to run compatible
> software.
Until it gets out of the bottle. Like emoji did.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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