Re: Sending the original (Unicode) domain name as well as the ACE ?

[Budi Rahardjo <budi@alliance.globalnetlink.com>]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:11:32AM +0200, Elisabeth Porteneuve wrote:
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> The nature of a postal address is that is might be used to send 
> a _paper_ letter. Then a person in, say Italy, will have to write 
> it on a paper and post to, say Korea. 

Hi Elisabeth,
I understand what you're saying. You are correct if a person
in Korea wants to communicate with a person in Italy (or vice versa).
But, it doesn't have to be that way for a person in Korea who
wants to communicate with another person in Korea.
S/he may not really care about other people in other parts of the world.
Perhaps a similar situation may also happen in China, Taiwan,
Arabic countries, and so on.

It doesn't make sense to *force* them to use our alphabet
if they just want to communicate internally, does it?


> We do not speak here about content of letters, or content of websites.

No, I am not talking the content of a letter.
I am thinking of the address.

In China, Taiwan, Japan, etc... they can write the *address*
with their own characters on the envelope, can't they?
Or do they *have* to write in "our" alphanumeric characters? ;-)
Of course, the letters may not make sense to us, but it is not
intended to us anyway.


> The intent of my message was to recall that LDH used in postal address 
> is not to prevent people to communicate, neither to dominate them, 
> but exactly the opposite, to permit international communication happen.

As long as it does not *force* people to do one way.
They know that using their own characters may restrict international
communication, but that's their choice.
We shouldn't ram it down to their throats ;-)
(figure of speach of course)

I hope my explanation is clear.
Or ... create more confusion, as usual...

Regards
-- budi