[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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