From owner-spki@c2.net Mon Mar 15 16:13:46 1999 Received: from blacklodge.c2.net (blacklodge.c2.net [140.174.185.245]) by lox.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08122; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:13:37 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by blacklodge.c2.net (8.8.8/8.7.3) id MAA18884 for spki-outgoing; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:18:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36ED6A83.4FA83893@research.bell-labs.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:16:03 -0500 From: Eric Grosse X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ron Rivest CC: rgrimm@cs.washington.edu, paul@hedonism.demon.co.uk, spki@c2.net Subject: Re: Display types? References: <199903151518.KAA16272@swan.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-spki@c2.net Precedence: bulk Ron Rivest wrote: > (1) [Display types] allow the use of names over a non-Latin alphabet > My personal opinion is that (1) makes them worth the extra trouble... Can we drop display types and declare that the name is UTF8? That gets us both an international alphabet and a simple syntax. For those unfamiliar with UTF8, I recommend the paper by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson as a readable introduction: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/doc/utf.html