At 12:23 AM 10/5/2001, Eric A. Hall wrote: >Clearly the world wants a UCS. While it is true that nobody can guarantee >that this will be 10646/Unicode,
the world wants world peace. such motivation is useful, but not sufficient, for achieving the desired goal. >we can all be certain that it absolutely >WON'T be ASCII. What we can also be sure of is that UTF-8 will be the >favored encoding for the future that we can see. what you seem to be missing is an appreciation of how often that phenomenon has occurred, yet proved wrong. > > When uDNS moves from proposal to specification, the real feasibility > > and tradeoffs associated with it can be debated. Until then, it is > > closer to a Rorschach test than a basis for technical debate. > >Hopefully there will be some meritorious debate at that time. that would be nice. the current, meretricious debate is wearing thin. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://www.brandenburg.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.273.6464
