Fwd: RFC 8369 on Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode

Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Mon Apr 2 20:56:58 CDT 2018


Whew!  Thanks for explaining the joke! Everyone here really thought they 
were serious.  Maybe you should write to the authors of the RFC and 
explain to them that their growth-function is incorrect.  I'm sure 
they'd be glad of the correction.

~mark

On 04/02/2018 09:49 PM, Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote:
> It's fun to consider the introdroduction (after emojis) of imojis, 
> amojis, umojis and omojis for individual people (or named pets), alien 
> species (E.T. wants to be able to call home with his own language and 
> script !), unknown things, and obfuscated entities. Also fun for new 
> "trollface" characters. In fact you could represent every individual 
> or even single atom in the universe that has ever created since the 
> BingBang !
>
> But unlike peoples and social entities, characters to encode don't 
> grow exponentially but still linearily at a slowing speed. ....


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