Mixing scripts

[Soobok Lee]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:18:40PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
> Although I feel that it is silly (I have been accused of having
> no sense of humor and a worse sense of brand-creation), we have
> also seen instances of mixing "e-commerce" with local languages
> in several places in the world, yielding business names of
> e-<local-script-characters> or e<local-script-characters>.  

I will add another example than John's one.

www.(phi)(beta)(kappa)-club.gr has  mixed script label but 
doesn't cause confusions, and so I think sweeping ban on
latin-greek mixture of label is not desirable  in any
one of IDNA,UA and registry policies.

But, it is so obvious that  www.l(omicron)ckheedmartin.com 
should be disallowed somewhere, anyhow.

What difference between 
 (phi)(beta)(kappa)-club and l(omicron)ckheedmartin 
make above intuitions or decisions ?  Just my personal feeling ?

I can't figure out how to turn this intuition into
algorithms  or heuristics that can be coded into programs.

Soobok

>  We
> could try to prohibit this at the protocol level, but doing so
> would require, IMO, really compelling reasons.  Everyone should
> remember that an overly restricted standard that isn't
> well-justified will typically just be ignored, leading to
> non-interoperable implementations, name space fragmentation, and
> other bad things.
> 
>     john
> 
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