The IETF (anounce) mailing list archive has several problems
that should be fixed:
- The most recent page is
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf-announce/Current/maillist.html
older pages are
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf-announce/Current/mail2.html
At 00/12/04 10:42 -0800, Christian Huitema wrote:
So, at a minimum, we need an IETF
specification on how to detect that a domain name part is using a non ascii
encoding, so that DNS servers don't get lost.
Why not just use UTF-8? It is an encoding of the UCS (aka
Unicode/ISO 10646), the encoding
At 00/12/04 19:58 -0500, Eric Brunner wrote:
I guess one of the first questions should be; "Is some partitioning of
the
Internet community such a bad thing?"...
If the "partition" intended for discussion is "@sign vs !path" addressing
conventions, Eric Allman and Peter Honeyman have left
At 00/12/04 08:15 -0500, Dave Crocker wrote:
Thank you. I was hoping someone would point out the support for parallel
operation so we could go further down that path. As you note, it seems to
be the closest to providing local/global support already.
That means postal gives us:
1. Global
At 00/12/03 08:03 +, Graham Klyne wrote:
There's a news story at:
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2000-2/1201f.html#item10
under the heading "Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?"
Leaving aside the issues of competing registries,
Sorry, but I think that's the main topic of the
At 00/12/03 13:57 -0500, Dave Crocker wrote:
Would it be such a bad thing to be unable to postal mail a letter or
package to anywhere in the world?
Of course it would be very bad. But it is usual now to send mail
e.g. from Japan to Japan with an address without any Latin letters.
It is also
At 00/09/20 14:34 +0900, Lee, Jiwoong wrote:
Dear all
What do you think about "de facto" that many technical documents
are currently using Internet Drafts as referece material?
I've seen next two cases:
1. An Internet Draft refers to another Internet Draft.
2. A book refers to another Internet
Hello Florian,
You are right that currently, there is no well-defined way to
include arbitrary characters into URIs, or to interpret URIs
and find out which characters they contain. So if you have
a file with an a-umlaut and an Euro sign in it, to construct
an http URI for it, you have to make
