RE: [gnso-rn-wg] note on terminology

["Edmon Chung" <edmon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am supportive of the use of the term LDH-label (or LDH and LDH Domain for 
that matter, where LDH=Letters, Digits and Hyphen).  I believe it provides 
useful clarity.
Edmon



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnso-rn-wg@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-rn-wg@xxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Avri Doria
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 5:07 AM
> To: GNSO RN WG
> Subject: [gnso-rn-wg] note on terminology
> 
> hi,
> 
> Now that we have gotten into using A-label and U-label from draft-
> klensin-idnabis-issues-01.txt, i am wondering whether we should also
> use the newly proposed term ldh-label.  Every time we indicate ascii
> in one of the papers we are writing there is still the ambiguity of
> whether we are referring to ASCII with or without the ACE prefix
> (xn--).  Whereas LDH-label has been defined to include those legal
> ASCII labels that are not IDN labels.
> 
> Even if we don't do it throughout the documents, it might be worth
> considering in those cases where there is ambiguity.
> 
> thanks
> a.