Re: Problems of Internationalized Mail Address eXtensions (IMAX)

At 00:00 03/03/02 +0000, Claus Fber wrote:

>The interesting part is that the IDNA WG seems to have missed the
>main advantage of their own IDNA design:
>IDNAs have a Unicode version (e.g. for the 1 billion Chinese people who
>understand Chinese characters) and an ASCII-only version (for the Greek
>person who does not).

I don't think that advantage was missed. But I think that for many
participants in the IDN WG, it was more implicit than explicit.
Many people seem to have some kind of urangst to deal with
characters they don't know, and therefore don't think they have
under control. To openly admit this to the WG, or even just to
admit it to themselves (and then get over it) didn't seem possible.

Regards,    Martin.