Stability of valid IDN labels

Patrik Fältström patrik at frobbit.se
Tue Apr 22 09:34:08 CEST 2008


On 22 apr 2008, at 03.49, Martin Duerst wrote:

>> Perhaps this is an argument for resurrecting MAYBE, then.  (I'm not
>> being glib; I just don't know.)
>
> Not really. The old MAYBE included lots of scripts that the draft
> authors were not overly familliar with, in bulk. What may happen
> is that DISALLOWED is treated more closely to the way it is in
> IDNA2003: okay to query, but forbidden to register.

Do not mix up the content of the category with the existence of the  
category. What was discussed was whether the MAYBE category should be  
there, and that was a clear NO on this mailing list.

Are people saying that decision should be revoked?

    Patrik



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