Touchstones for "Mapping"

["Martin J. Dürst"]

I very much agree with Harald. We are working on IDNs because we want 
humans to be able to easily read domain names in their script. Storing
them as A-Labels when there is a reasonable chance that humans will
have a look at them (e.g. in HTML or XML source, email source,...)
is against the very intent of IDNs. Authors are humans, too, even
if they work on plain text :-!

Regards,    Martin.

On 2009/03/30 15:32, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> Andrew Sullivan skrev:
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:08:36PM +0100, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>>
>>> terminology quibble:
>>> if it's an U-label, then it's already in canonical form....
>>>
>> Yes, but my view still stands: it's way better to have the A-Label
>> form, because you can't be sure that whatever looks at the U-Label
>> later won't be an IDNA2003 client.
>>
> I agree with you for all cases where the "whatever looks at the label"
> won't be a human with a text display who expects to find human readable
> strings.
>
> Among all the good things said about A-labels, "human readable" is not
> one of them.
>
>                    Harald
>
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