On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 07:55:16AM -0700, Leo Vegoda via db-wg wrote: Hi,
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:52 AM ripedenis--- via db-wg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Please do Leo :) > > Here's my draft for people to kick around and improve. Thanks for this one. Two comments from my side, as a for-internationalisation grumbler. > The RIPE NCC service region includes countries whose language is not > written using Latin script. Languages using other scripts include (in > English alphabetical order) Arabic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, and > Russian. Many of the languages used in the RIPE NCC service region are The list is lacking a lot of languages that are written in Cyrillic and its variations (like Bulgarian or Serbian Cyrillic). This should be noted. > Adding support for e-mail addresses that use IDNs in the RIPE Database > leads to the question of where else the RIPE NCC would need to add > internationalization support in order to provide a properly integrated > set of services. For instance, if support is added for registering > e-mail addresses, there is likely to be a demand for the names used in > "person:" and "role:" objects to be displayed as recorded on official > identity documents. The demand is there for at least 10 years now. I realised that I have moaned about that for the first time at RIPE 61 in 2010. ;-) But please, use baby steps with that. Cheers, Piotr -- Piotr Strzyżewski
