Punycode & IMA/EAI

[Debbie Garside]

 John wrote:

> And, if that trend continues and generalizes, then this
> entire IDN exercise (new versions and old) and probably the
> EAI one are a waste of time.  For some reason, a lot of
> people don't believe that.

That is so wrong.  You are forgetting the people who do not wish to trade
internationally but would like to have their web/email in their
language/script for use in their own realms.

Best regards

Debbie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no
> [mailto:idna-update-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of John C Klensin
> Sent: 21 May 2008 07:01
> To: Felix Sasaki; Shawn Steele
> Cc: idna-update at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Re: Punycode & IMA/EAI
>
>
>
> --On Wednesday, 21 May, 2008 11:15 +0900 Felix Sasaki
> <fsasaki at w3.org> wrote:
>
> > Often business cards in Japan (and I assume in other countries as
> > well) have two sides, one with information in English, one with
> > information in the native language. The mail address
> written on both
> > sides is the same, but sometimes the URI (company homepage) is
> > different: English homepage versus "native" homepage. So far I have
> > never seen an URI written with non-ASCII characters written on a
> > business card, no matter which side.
>
> Nor have I.
>
> And, if that trend continues and generalizes, then this
> entire IDN exercise (new versions and old) and probably the
> EAI one are a waste of time.  For some reason, a lot of
> people don't believe that.
>
>     john
>
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