Re: [bidi] BIDI in mail addresses

--On Tuesday, 30 September, 2003 09:00 -0700 "Paul Hoffman / 
IMC" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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.

Paul, the word John used was "replacing", not "adding to".  I'm 
not aware of replacement of the 3166-based codes being 
contemplated, actively or otherwise, by anyone with the ability 
to make such a change.  For my edification, could you fill me in?

>>  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.

Yes, absolutely, although I can more easily imagine non-ASCII 
scheme names than I can getting rid of 3166-based TLDs.

    john