Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-23 Thread James Seng
John, Ah I see now. Yes, there is leakage in Punycode now and will be for a while. It is not nice but I couldnt think of any encoding which wont leak. (UTF-8 will give you gibberish if client are not UTF-8 aware or with the right fonts). Same arguments we have in IDN WG many years ago. We

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-23 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 23-nov-03, at 12:47, James Seng wrote: Yes, there is leakage in Punycode now and will be for a while. It is not nice but I couldnt think of any encoding which wont leak. (UTF-8 will give you gibberish if client are not UTF-8 aware or with the right fonts). Same arguments we have in IDN WG

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-22 Thread John C Klensin
James, My apologies for being a bit cryptic -- I hoped people would understand the issues well enough by now to get the point. The difference between the design of --and hopes for-- IDNA and what is happening is something the community needs to understand and be better informed about. The

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-22 Thread Dave Crocker
John, JCK The design of Punycode was for machine-to-machine communication, as JCK you point out. It was never really intended or expected to leak JCK into use environments. ... JCK Indeed, it was chosen, in preference to some other options, on the JCK grounds that JCK* it could be deployed

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 20-nov-03, at 4:05, James Seng wrote: I think having the punycode form have no value on a name badge. Punycode, as it is designed, is meant for machine-to-machine communication. So why don't we come up with a machine-to-human transliteration mechanism? So if someone called (trouble with

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread John Stracke
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: It should be RFID, cheaper, and easier, not only for the blue sheets. How would RFID be cheaper than barcodes? Someday, maybe, but today the tags are expensive--according to CNet, depending on volume, customers can expect to pay 30 cents to $1 per radio tag. The

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
Dave Crocker wrote: What I would suggest, if we do this, is writing the person's name *twice*: once in their native character set, and once in a form that an english-reader can read. The latter is an established interchange architecture I believe that was the intention in the proposal.

RE: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread Rosen, Brian
the IETF secretariat. Regards, Jordi - Original Message - From: Rosen, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'JORDI PALET MARTINEZ' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:14 PM Subject: RE: i18n name badges Let's keep going. I'd

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 19-nov-03, at 22:28, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: It should be RFID, cheaper, and easier, not only for the blue sheets. Wouldn't it be even cheaper if everyone who has a laptop with wireless with them signs in on an electronic version of the blue sheets? This just takes a few hours of

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread John Stracke
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 19-nov-03, at 22:28, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: It should be RFID, cheaper, and easier, not only for the blue sheets. Wouldn't it be even cheaper if everyone who has a laptop with wireless with them signs in on an electronic version of the blue sheets? This just

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
There are going to be *at least* three desirable encodings of a person's identity -- the 'natural' encoding in the preferred/native charset of the person's name, some kind of phonetic-ASCII encoding that tells non-natives how to pronounce the name, and the email/idna encoding[s] that folks would

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread Dave Crocker
Peter, PSA Proposals for making email addresses fully internationalized were a hot PSA topic in Minneapolis. I'd like to suggest a more modest reform: fully PSA internationalized IETF name badges. IETF 59 might be a fine venue for PSA rolling those out... I think that enhanced character sets

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, November 19, 2003 09:03 -0800 Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, PSA Proposals for making email addresses fully internationalized were a hot PSA topic in Minneapolis. I'd like to suggest a more modest reform: fully PSA internationalized IETF name badges. IETF 59

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 7:07 PM Subject: Re: i18n name badges --On Wednesday, November 19, 2003 09:03 -0800 Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, PSA Proposals for making email addresses fully internationalized were a hot PSA topic in Minneapolis. I'd

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:15 -0800 Fred Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:23 AM 11/19/2003, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Proposals for making email addresses fully internationalized were a hot topic in Minneapolis. I'd like to suggest a more modest reform: fully internationalized

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread Leif Johansson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: | Keith, | | I'm not sure if you are joking, but I think is an excellent idea ... | | A badge communication protocol ... if you start with the draft, I will be happy to contribute ! | bcp? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: i18n name badges (Modified by Iljitsch van Beijnum)

2003-11-19 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 19-nov-03, at 18:03, Dave Crocker wrote: I think that enhanced character sets is a perfect topic for having the IETF eat its own dogfood. Just dealing with the details of the name tags might well prove instructive to us, nevermind the basic politeness it offers to attendees. Easy to say

RE: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread Rosen, Brian
: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: i18n name badges Keith, I'm not sure if you are joking, but I think is an excellent idea ... A badge communication protocol ... if you start with the draft, I will be happy to contribute ! Regards, Jordi

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
. Regards, Jordi - Original Message - From: Rosen, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'JORDI PALET MARTINEZ' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:14 PM Subject: RE: i18n name badges Let's keep going. I'd contribute, say, $25, plus write some code

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread Ole J. Jacobsen
If we do this, it should be WE (the IETF engineers) that do it and NOT another thing we request the secretariat to do. We should eat our own dogfood by writing, testing and then GIVING an implementation that is compatible with the current label making system to the secretariat. It's probably not

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
Someone can complain about privacy issues, but I feel that is the same now whe n the blue sheet is circulated, or the attendance list is in the web site, rig ht ? Count me as one of the complainants. The big problem with RFID is that your identity is exposed at times when you don't want it to

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread Dave Crocker
Fred, FB What I would suggest, if we do this, is writing the person's name *twice*: FB once in their native character set, and once in a form that an FB english-reader can read. The latter is an established interchange architecture I believe that was the intention in the proposal. List names

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread Keith Moore
Proposals for making email addresses fully internationalized were a hot topic in Minneapolis. I'd like to suggest a more modest reform: fully internationalized IETF name badges. IETF 59 might be a fine venue for rolling those out... I'd love to see an Internet-Draft on the topic. For

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread Keith Moore
I'm not sure if you are joking, but I think is an excellent idea ... A badge communication protocol ... if you start with the draft, I will be happy to contribute ! I'm working on lots of other things, and somehow I suspect that others are more qualified than I am to get this rolling. The

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:44:09 PST, Ole J. Jacobsen said: line printers any more, but you get the idea :-) [If anyone still remembers how to make a line printer attached to an IBM 370 do this by sending just the right sort of code, you get extra points]. The IBM 1403 printer (1200 lines per

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-19 Thread James Seng
I think having the punycode form have no value on a name badge. Punycode, as it is designed, is meant for machine-to-machine communication. But I like the idea of allowing participation to put their own native names together with their ASCII version on the name badge especially for the next