Special case for Bidi in draft-ietf-idnabis-protocol-14

Alireza Saleh saleh at nic.ir
Tue Sep 8 04:16:08 CEST 2009


I don't see much difference between MUST and SHOULD, as I believe it is 
better to keep the protocol documents less restrictive I vote for 
SHOULD. However I think, the BIDI checks will be always performed if 
possible.

Best
    Alireza,


Vint Cerf wrote:
> I think Andrew and John make a good argument for not altering the  
> present
> treatment of BiDi rules, including the use of SHOULD vs MUST with regard
> to checking.  It will be helpful to hear from others who have not  
> spoken on
> these points.
>
> v
>
> On Sep 7, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>
>   
>> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:46:12PM +1000, Wil Tan wrote:
>>     
>>> I concur, especially given the fact that Bidi labels registered at  
>>> lower
>>> levels of the tree (thus outside the control of parent registries)  
>>> could
>>> possibly be used to render confusing domain names.
>>>       
>> Let us not open this debate again, please.  We have explicitly decided
>> that confusability is not a criterion for acceptability.  Just because
>> registries can act badly is not a reason to set protocol rules, and we
>> have been quite clear that we expect registries to have a policy (even
>> if that expectation is likely to be unrealised in practice).
>>
>> A
>>
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