Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

[Chris Benson]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:46:48PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:23:12AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> > Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> You show me a DNS server which supports kanji :-)
> 
> This is a big bugbear of mine.  Yes, you can register domains in all these
> weird scripts, but there's bugger all software support for them, and it
> will take *years* to replace all that's out there with new versions.  Look
> at how slowly crypto use is spreading, or how little-used IPv6 is.  IMNSHO,
> the registrars who are hyping their furrin-language domain registrations
> are committing a gross fraud, as registrants are led to believe that their
> new gobbledigook.com will be usable when it ain't.

And according to http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/28/1755243.shtml

       Xanni writes "Intellectual property claims have blindsided the
    Internet Engineering Task Force and could derail the group's efforts
     to develop a common scheme for supporting foreign-language domain
        names across the Internet. NWFusion is carrying the story."

Great! get the lawyers involved :-( 

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Chris Benson