Copy-and-paste *operation* is not only a user interface but also a trigger to a critical system service for interprocess communications between independant applications like unix & NT-pipe or socket ,and it transfers some data from one application to the other with conversions or transcodings.
Some IETF protocols (TCP/IP) are often very strict at forcing on-the-wire communication octets streams to be little-endian and big-endian. Cut-and-paste is a popular communication tool and have much more stricter rules and conventions for various data formats (images, sounds , URLs and texts ). IDN specifications can recommends special treatements of IDN or IDN-like strings in text copy&paste operation. Identifier security and integrity issue around copy-and-paste operation still is of the concern of this WG. Soobok Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Crocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The concern for cut-and-paste is obviously valid, but it is not the job of > the IETF protocol standards to operate well within a user cut-and-paste > environment.
