[UA-discuss] Armenia

Asmus Freytag (c) asmusf at ix.netcom.com
Wed Feb 13 03:47:32 UTC 2019


On 2/12/2019 7:12 PM, John Levine wrote:
>> In a recent discussion someone put it that labels should be valid IDN 
>> U labels once they are "in the system". Now, when you make a DNS 
>> lookup the label you submit is "in the system". When it's on the side 
>> of a bus, to use the other extreme, it's not. Now, where do you draw 
>> the line for where "the system" starts? I don't think you can include 
>> all HTML documents or HTML mail message or any other place a URL can 
>> and does exist today.
>
> Who knows?  There are standards for URLs, but if you look at three 
> browsers you'll probably find at least four misinterpretations of them. 


What I am arguing is that you cannot retroactively apply standards that 
haven't been followed; particularly for HTML you have a whole internet's 
worth of legacy data that any system must be able to handle and continue 
to do so for the indefinite future.

A./

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