BIDI rules

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:00:14PM -0400,
 Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net> wrote 
 a message of 43 lines which said:

> > We could leave bidi out of the protocol, and leave it to zone
> > admins and applications.
> >   
> 
> How is this different from Harald's "RTL characters cannot be used in 
> domain names, unless ... [some restricted scope statement]"?

I understand Erik's message as "We should not put bidi-specific rules
in the protocol, the protocol itself works fine with bidi, there is
just a display issue which is not for the IETF to solve".

Quite different from Harald's [mocking, I presume] statement.