[spec] IRIs, IDNs, and all that international jazz

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 10:49:21PM +0900,
 bie <bie at 202x.moe> wrote 
 a message of 48 lines which said:

> but because I realized how hard it was to verbally convey my
> Japanese addresses to my Norwegian friends and vice versa.

I don't see the point, anyway. If the adresse (the URI) uses the
Japanese writing, it is probably because the content is in Japanese
and/or is interesting only for people who are in Japan. Therefore
either your norwegian friend is in one of these two cases, or you
wouldn't tell him/her the adress, anyway.

> The de facto universality of ASCII

No, the latin script (and even more the ASCII character set) is not
universal (even if it would be simpler for me).