Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA)

At 15:50 31/10/03, John Stracke wrote:
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>Dave Aronson wrote:
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>>Think also of many businesses that cater to the general public, from 
>>bleeding-edge geeks like us, to those who can barely spell PDA and don't 
>>know what one is.
>I think the only times I've seen anybody use PDAs to exchange contact 
>information were at IETF meetings, in the hallways, when people had time 
>to kill.  It just takes too long.  Typically, when two companies are 
>meeting, and you've got, say, four people on each side, everybody swaps 
>business cards in under a minute, and you're done.  Doing the same thing 
>via IR would hold the meeting up too long.

What counts is not what you do nor see doing. It is the modelization of the 
possible. Because if you prepare the things properly, people will use them 
more easily. Because if you dont they will do it anyway and we will all 
suffer from James Seng's third nightmare.

Example: spam is a need for some that you will not stop. But because it has 
not been modelized at its proper place for usage and containement it is 
creeping everywere. Solutions for the spammers are built-in (first spam was 
in 1966?) but spam containment solutions have not been built in yet.

PDA exchanges must be increasingly (as standards get designed) supported in 
a way protecting users against a pollution through PDA exchanges. 
Internationalized, multilingual, vernacular must be supported in a way 
every usage is supported but users are protected from their pollution. This 
will not come from the proposition (anyone can change) but from the 
architecture imposed to every solution.

You may decide to consider vernacularization either because you want to get 
it, or because you want to be protected from it. Both reasons make 
necessary to workon it. Limited propositions like IDNA or multilingual pave 
the way for development and experience. But at the end of the day the 
generalized demand for vernacular as identified everything has to be 
considered, either as an usage you want to support or as nuisance you want 
to prevent. Chose you side - IMHO both will help - but let proceed.
jfc