James; > > As you could have seen, on IETF mailing list, Harald and I have, at > > least, agreed that, if you use unicode based encoding, local context > > (or locale) must be carried out of band > > Few will disagree (including me) that using Unicode to do localization is > almost impossible without locale context. Huh? No one said such a thing. What is agreed is that, to use unicode, it must be supplied out of band local context. So, could you explain how the context is supplied with current IDN spec? > But I am touching on a sensitive topic about what you considered as I18N & > L10N and what the rest of the world thinks. Totally irrelevant. > > But, anyway, the discussion so far in IETF list is enough to deny IDN. > > I am not aware there was a IETF wide last call on IDN yet. To deny IDN, IESG can simply say "IDN is disbanded". There is no last call necessaruy. > > I have found a theory to deny PKI and to explain why public key > > cryptograpy is not so polular dispite the efforts of ISO, which will > > destory entire business of a company or companies owing several > > important TLDs. > > Very interesting. Could you share the theory, or privately if you prefer? I will post it later if I have time. Masataka Ohta