Re: [idn] Internationalized PTR draft submitted

[James Seng]

Mark Davis wrote:
> 4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa  IPTR  en "english commerce.com in utf8"
>                       IPTR  de "german handel.com in utf8"
>                       IPTR  it    "italian commercio.com in utf8"

Yes, something like that.

> In any event, if they are different characters and are to be used as domain
> names, it would seem that they would need to be separately registered.

Yes, unfortunately :P

This is reverse, as it is possible there are 2+ names for a single IP.

> 2. Perhaps you can motivate the use of this more, with a usage scenario?

Not sure, honest! :-) Hongbo Shi has to answer this.

Actually, this is a good section to add to the next version of the I-D.

> 3. The Unicode consortium does not encourage use of the plane 14 language
> tags. When language tagging is necessary, it should be done with a higher
> protocol (such as xml:lang in XML, or HTTP accept-lang).

As Paul told me, Plane 14 is been inserted at the request of IETF. I suppose
there is a reason why IETF want this.

May I ask why UC does not encourage it? Will Plane 14 will be drop off leaving
1M+ codepoints?

-James Seng