Re: [bidi] BIDI in mail addresses

At 6:52 AM -0400 9/30/03, John Cowan wrote:
>Unfortunately, non-Latin identifiers have to interoperate with the
>existing infrastructure, where top-level names are encoded in Latin script.

True.

>Replacing the ISO 3166 codes at the top of the domain hierarchy is not
>contemplated,

False: it is being actively contemplated.

>  so every host in the "il" domain will bear a name that is
>either purely LTR (as today) or bidirectional.

Every domain name will contain periods. Every URL will contain 
periods in the domain name, as well as slashes, colons, and ASCII 
characters in the scheme names.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium