[CCWG-ACCT] Confirm language regarding string as content

Andrew Sullivan ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
Wed Nov 25 23:29:22 UTC 2015


On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 03:17:41PM -0800, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
> If it is a different problem, what problem is it?

Most important, it raises the entire issue of scripts, which are not
actually the identifiers in the DNS since the labels ICANN specifies
for the DNS are actually not about scripts (since they're A-labels).
And ICANN cannot technically and should not otherwise have an opinion
about what scripts people are using lower in the tree (especially
since people can and do use non-IDNA labels if they want).  I'm also
more than a little worried about the "sequences of labels" thing,
since that re-opens the issue of where in the tree ICANN is supposed
to stop, but I'm prepared to ignore that in this formulation if others
really like it since it doesn't say "all sequences of labels".

> "the average reader"? now there's a can of worms.

Indeed!

Best regards,

A

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