Punycode & IMA/EAI

[Felix Sasaki]

Martin Duerst さんは書きました:
> At 15:01 08/05/21, John C Klensin wrote:
>   
>> --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.
>>     
>
> I have. A Japanese friend of mine had a Japanese IDN on the
> Japanese side of his business card. A single observance, still,
> but existing in reality.
>   

just to clarify, my intention was not to say that this is not possible 
or not desirable, but just very rare - for now. I hope this will change 
in the future, and I'm sure the work of this Working Group will help for 
that change.

Felix

>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> The main blockers currently remain, which are the not yet close
> to complete coverage of IDN-capable browsers (getting better with
> the replacement of IE6 by IE7) and the lack of IDN TLDs
> (ICANN is working on it, so it can only be a matter of time :-(.
>
> Regards,    Martin.
>
>
>
> #-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
> #-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp     
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