Re: [idn] report of the straw poll

[Paul Hoffman / IMC]

At 1:09 PM -0400 5/25/01, J. William Semich wrote:
>I think we should wrok harder to get consensus, that's all.

Ah! That's not what you said in the last message. Good to hear that 
you are interested in working towards consensus.

>  Among the 14
>are representatives of the interests of many millions of users, working all
>over the world with systems using established protocols based on UTF-8,
>etc.

Yes, and among the 36, there are also representatives of the 
interests of many millions of users, working all over the world with 
systems using established protocols based on UTF-8, etc. What does 
that have to do with achieving consensus?

>I agree it would be a good idea to put forward a single alternative to IDNA
>for consideration ...

Please note that I said a single Internet Draft. This mailing list 
discussion has been fruitful, but trying to nail down fruit is not 
useful in the long run.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium