The conditions for changing the protocol (was: Mappings - some examples)

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 08:05:50AM -0800, Erik van der Poel wrote:
> By the way, one reason why HTML authors do not include Eszett in their
> URLs is because MSIE6 does not support IDNA (and there are still quite
> a lot of MSIE6 users).

The above is a good argument why doing the right thing now is more
important than getting backward compatibility perfect: we're still
early enough in the IDNA support cycle that large numbers of clients
don't do it, or do it imperfectly.  It will be way harder to fix
things later.  Therefore, getting it right once even if it is more
painful in the short term will pay off more handsomely in the longer
term.

(It also strikes me that this ground is well-tilled, but maybe not
everyone who is paying attention now was paying attention the last
time around.)

A

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