[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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