On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
They are battling it out in the marketplace and one of the IDN solutions will evolve to the point where the market considers it clearly superior. This may be the IETF-blessed solution and it may not. One only has to browse through the RFC archives to see that RFC status is no guarantee that something will be widely adopted.
Personally, I think that the Internet is too young and we have too little experience with multilingual naming to engineer an Internationalised Domain Naming solution that solves the problem once and for all. This means that we should be ready for more than one iteration to get to the solution.
We should be careful to distinguish between i18n and localization. These private alternative DNS roots are specific to a particular set of users, so they implement DNS l10n which is not appropriate for a system that is supposed to be international. Slogan: localization is balkanization. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ BISCAY: WEST 5 OR 6 BECOMING VARIABLE 3 OR 4. SHOWERS AT FIRST. MODERATE OR GOOD.