On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote: > * Dan Kaminsky: > >> Oh, come off it. There are reasons to make changes to networks other >> than security. It's a genuine, non-corrupt reasonable demand that you >> should be able to have your own language in DNS. > > If it's only about language, it's not reasonable at all. "com" isn't > English, "de" isn't German, "cat" probably isn't Catalan. By that > reason, every ccTLD needs multiple additional TLDs (offical and > semi-official country name > > (Poor FYROM. There are '"'s in the country's official name, so it > can't be put into DNS even with IDNA.)
Not all languages use roman orthographies. If Microsoft wants to have a Chinese version of their site with chinese(microsoft).chinese(cn), on what grounds do you get to insist that it should only be chinese(microsoft).cn? _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
