I agree there's a large provisioning gap. My experience in China, Japan, India, the Gulf states etc. is an inherent local belief that the internet will follow real life in terms of use of scripts. And a lot of impatience with technical reasons why it's not the most feasible thing.
I don't understand what "the internet will follow real life in terms of use of scripts" means, and in particular how it would be inconsistent with registering one variant and blocking the rest. You can use whatever you want in your web site, your mail, and everything else. But for your identifier, pick one. R's, John
On Mon, May 13, 2019, 12:08 PM John Levine <john.levine@standcore.com> wrote:
On Mon, 13 May 2019, Ram Mohan wrote:
While it's a straightforward argument to say no variants should be allowed on the DNS, the reality in many linguistic locales is that variants are a part of everyday life. Not just in the Han script, but in Indic and Arabic scripts, among others. We can't wish them away, nor do we have the luxury of saying the DNS wasn't designed for it, so it shall never support it.
I think there's a large gap between "many writing systems can write the same thing in different ways" and "those different ways should be in the DNS."
It's easy to see why you'd block variants, but particularly given the utter lack of tools to provision them, and no interest in creating those tools, hard to see why you'd delegate them.
Regards, John Levine, john.levine@standcore.com Standcore LLC
Regards, John Levine, john.levine@standcore.com Standcore LLC