I would like to note that my numeric IP address (for www.qsm.co.il) is shared
with other companies hosted by my ISP and they use the domain name to sort
things out. A numeric IP on my business card would not necessarily be equivalent
to an ACE or IDN.
Jony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Patrik Fältström
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 6:36 PM
> To: J. William Semich; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [idn] An experiment with UTF-8 domain names
>
>
> At 08.48 -0500 01-01-06, J. William Semich wrote:
> >Not to mention it would be hard for most people to remember.
>
> That was my point when I said that people would try to use the
> original IDN version.
>
> >It looks a lot simpler to put "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" on your
> >business card as the "ASCII alternative", and probably is much
> >easier to remember.
>
> But, that would not work if not the top level domain "48" exists. If
> it was an IPv4 address literal you wanted to write it is
> syntactically wrong (you forgot the '[' and ']') and even if that was
> what you wanted that would not work either as the IP address change
> quite often for my mail host.
>
> paf
>
>
