From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (brunner@nic-naa.net)
Date: Sat Oct 19 2002 - 14:34:53 CDT
> Yup.
++
> > I am firmly convinced at this point that Usefor is simply incapable of
> > ...
> > ... but their political problems were small fish
> > compared to the ones Usefor has labored under.
IDN. 63 octets. No handshakes. Large Installed Base. Pirates, Thieves and
Idiots galore. "Looks Like" and Marks. Nation States and Supra-National
Standard Egos. More glyphs than fish have scales. Dense and sparce clusters.
Chinese, Dogs and Indians depricated. Fun.
> > Usenet NG will come from someone sitting down with at most two or three
> > other people and hammering out a protocol ...
A la Klensin and itsa-layer-thang. Don't think so. Been there, done that,
got a broken key-word.
Either the controlling engineering design point is ubiquitous 8bit memory,
which put paid to the neat 36-bit word machines and ftp's "TYPE L m" for
m-bit machines, or it isn't.
If it isn't, then Klensin and others similarly "strik[ing] out on [their]
own with I18N" may be (eventually) convincing.
If it is, then to paraphrase Russ Means, "for the world to live, 7-bits
must die". Russ actually said "Europe", and when he said it I thought he
was over the top. I don't any more.
> But regardless, it doesn't matter what my opinion is or what your opinion
> is; it matters what people actually implement and make work. ...
Yup.
> If I'm not, then hey, I will have learned something, and that's
> always good.
Good attitude.
Kitakitamatsinopowaw, (it looks nicer when written properly)
Eric