[Ncsg-discuss] Latin diacritics public comment

[Tapani Tarvainen]

Dear all,

I am drafting a public comment about the initial report of the Latin
Script Diacritics PDP. It has been open for comments for over a month
already, my apologies for being a bit late here, but there's still a
week to go, deadline is February 23.

They are using a guided submission form, which makes it a bit hard to
collaborate on the comment. I haven't yet arranged my ideas to fit
that, but I'll get around to it.

I don't have pretty, submission-ready text yet, but as time is short,
here's roughly what I'm going to say:

The main substantive thing is that they should allow characters that
for purposes of DNS behave just as if they were diacritics even if
they aren't by Unicode definition, like đ and ø.

(Unicode definition does not agree with the original linguistic one,
it was just convenient to use to save time in the WG. In any case here
it's in effect just a proxy for "Latin extensions that are visually
confusable with base ASCII characters".)

I'm also going to comment about the requirement that the base ASCII
version of the TLD is always needed (that is, you couldn't have
things like .sjö and .sjó without also having .sjo).

I'm also a bit uneasy about how the single-entity principle
requirement is done, but maybe it won't be worth commenting on.

I'll re-read the report in detail and may come up with other stuff to
say, but probably nothing big.

Anyway, any ideas about this would be welcome. Feel free to comment
here or write to me directly, as you like. (I'll try to overcome my
distaste for googlish things and make a shareable google doc to draft
this on, but not today.)

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen