On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:55:02PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote: > > As is explained in wikipedia > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet > > arabic letters have four forms, "isolated", "end", "middle" > and "beggining" and the form is determined by the location > of a letter within a word. Thus, they are not different > from Latin distinctions of capital/small letters, which is > determined by the location of a letter within a sentence.
I don't see how any of the above (or any of the rest of the message, which I clipped but which betrays a misunderstanding of nuances of writing systems more or less as complete as the misunderstanding demonstrated above) has anything at all to do with the current draft. I think Ohta-san has made it clear that he thinks IDNA is broken. Point noted. But there's a whole list devoted to the topic of IDNA, and I don't believe it's in scope for this draft. The draft accepts IDNA as a foundation, and proceeds from there. IDNA2008 is a standards track IETF project, and it is therefore legitimate for an I-D to start with that specification as a starting point. If one thinks the standards track IDNA2008 specification is wrong or won't work (I suggested this before), one can go write a draft that says so. A -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected] Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
