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João Damas
joao at bondis.org
Fri Apr 17 16:38:30 CEST 2015
> On 17 Apr 2015, at 14:54, Job Snijders <job at ntt.net> wrote: > > Hi all, > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:46:25PM +0000, Shane Kerr wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:18:04 +0200 >> Piotr Strzyzewski <Piotr.Strzyzewski at polsl.pl> wrote: >> >>> Proposal: >>> I propose to allow UTF8 in all free text attributes of all DB objects >>> except in primary keys. >> >> I think it makes sense. >> <snip> >> >> Personally I think it could be used for primary keys too, but that can >> always be added later. > > Allowing UTF8 in datafields helps with the issues that Piotr mentioned, > there is a big benefit for all if you can accurately input your personal > name or company address. > Fully agree. > On the other hand lots of primary keys are used by computer programs > that don't care about such data. They just need to expand AS-Королевство > into a set of prefixes. wait, maybe it is easier to just leave that as > AS-KINGDOM. :-) > > I think it is best to leave primary keys untouched as they are today. > Also agreed, not breaking installed base is important. Hopefully whatever comes after whois/rpsl will do this right from the beginning…(*) > The proposal as set forth by Pitor will benefit humans, and it is my > assessment that it does not harm existing computer programs. yep! Joao (*) for some definition of right, of which there might be many. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 203 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/attachments/20150417/aa88dd5e/attachment.sig>
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