I'm curious: why do you think that everyone would be satisfied with Latin characters only, and no non-Latin characters? Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com â ààààààààààààààààààààà â ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Crispin" <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU> To: "Keith Moore" <moore@cs.utk.edu> Cc: <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>; <paf@cisco.com>; <ietf-imaa@imc.org>; <idn@ops.ietf.org>; <ietf-822@imc.org>; <ietf@ietf.org>; <ietf-pop3ext@imc.org>; <lemonade@ietf.org>; <discuss@apps.ietf.org>; <ietf-imapext@imc.org>; <ietf-smtp@imc.org>; <presnick@qualcomm.com>; <hardie@qualcomm.com>; <ned.freed@mrochek.com> Sent: Mon, 2003 Oct 27 11:10 Subject: [idn] Re: FYI: BOF on Internationalized Email Addresses (IEA) > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Keith Moore wrote: > > >> Thanks for taking a stab at a problem statement. I'd like to drill down > >> on this just a bit. > >> What is the source of the "growing need"? Is it: > >> [snip] > > > I agree that this needs to be stated, but someone other than me will have > to do it. > > I believe that the primary push for this functionality comes from regions > which use Latin alphabetics with diacriticals; and that most individuals > in regions which do not use Latin script are accept the use of Latin > script for multinational interchange. In many regions where Latin > diacriticals are used, there is no acceptable transform of a surname to a > form that does not use diacriticals. Simply omitting the diacritical > causes (at least to the inhabitants of those regions) a misspelling. > > This set of beliefs naturally biases how I approach the problem. The > problem statement must be free of bias, including mine. > > -- Mark -- > > http://staff.washington.edu/mrc > Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. > Si vis pacem, para bellum. > > > > > > > >