BIDI rules

Harald Tveit Alvestrand harald at alvestrand.no
Thu Sep 4 17:26:28 CEST 2008


Erik van der Poel skrev:
> At the IETF meeting, I started thinking that we should not worry about
> getting the bidi rules exactly right this time, since we still have
> the opportunity to refine the spec as we move from Proposed to Draft,
> and then to Standard.
>
> But now I'm wondering whether we might remove the bidi reference from
> the IDNAbis protocol, and submit the bidi draft as an Experimental
> RFC?
This would only be logical if we replaced it with a statement that RTL 
characters cannot be used in domain names, unless within the confines of 
a (documented) experiment - if the main documents were to remove all 
restrictions, we can't put restrictions back.

That seems a bit harsh.....



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