Re: EPP Extensions for IDN

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:06:32AM -0400,
 Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 62 lines which said:

> > IDN deals with scripts, not with languages. 
> 
> My reading of the RFCs is that IDNA specifically deals with neither.
> It rather deals with Unicode code points, 

You're right.

> I can imagine that "??thenstravel" (in case that doesn't come
> through, that's "[GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA]thens") could be a cool
> name for a travel agency, for instance.  So, which script is
> "??thenstravel.example" in?

Right and another example (may be more realistic) is company names in
Russia where high-tech organisations sometimes have a name where a
Latin-script acronym ("xml" for instance) is mixed with a
Cyrillic-script name.

> So at the very least, any extension is going to need support for
> both "languages" and "scripts".

May be using RFC 4646 for the tag would be the easier way to support both?