[UA-discuss] GNSO requested deferral of IDN Guidelines 4.0 Vote - CPH / Registrants impact
John Levine
john.levine at standcore.com
Mon May 13 17:08:19 UTC 2019
On Mon, 13 May 2019, Ram Mohan wrote:
> While it's a straightforward argument to say no variants should be allowed
> on the DNS, the reality in many linguistic locales is that variants are a
> part of everyday life. Not just in the Han script, but in Indic and Arabic
> scripts, among others. We can't wish them away, nor do we have the luxury
> of saying the DNS wasn't designed for it, so it shall never support it.
I think there's a large gap between "many writing systems can write the
same thing in different ways" and "those different ways should be in the
DNS."
It's easy to see why you'd block variants, but particularly given the
utter lack of tools to provision them, and no interest in creating those
tools, hard to see why you'd delegate them.
Regards,
John Levine, john.levine at standcore.com
Standcore LLC
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