mappings-01 and the general procedure

[Wil Tan]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Erik van der Poel <erikv at google.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Wil Tan<wil at cloudregistry.net> wrote:
> > 1. I wonder how many domain names stored (as part of URLs in bookmarks,
> or
> > hyperlinks in a document) contain ideographic full-stop in the real
> world.
>
> In May 2009, 0.000014% of all hyperlinks in documents in Google's
> index contained (IDNA2003) non-ASCII dots in the domain name.
>

Thanks Erik. That's good to know.

The only reason I asked the question was to say that perhaps the folding of
full-stops can be done at keyboard input time so it could be out of scope
for the IDNA2008 protocol. Having them in hyperlinks would also mean that
the URI parsing or domain name parsing routines would also have to take that
into account, which means it probably warrants some care to be taken in the
protocol document if we are not to break backward compatibility.

I don't recall seeing this issue being raised at today's meeting. Might
folks have discussed it face-to-face?

=wil
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